The Marriage of Kim K Owen Davies 27/07/2017 Arcola’s Grimeborn season kicks off in style with this ingenious re-imagining of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. It is more musical theatre than opera bu...
Richard III Aleksandra Sakowska 24/05/2017 Mehmet Ergen’s staging of Richard III is neither politically relevant nor entertaining. His contemporary take on Shakespeare’s story of the most viole...
Tamburlaine Aleksandra Sakowska 23/03/2017 This rare staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine by a British East Asian company, Yellow Earth (formed in 1995) is rather disappointing because ...
The Cherry Orchard Munotida Chinyanga 26/02/2017 Chekhovs’ The Cherry Orchard follows the story of Madame Ranevsky who has returned home to her family estate, which holds a cherry orchard in their ga...
The Kreutzer Sonata Tim Hochstrasser 20/07/2016 There is a lot more to Tolstoy’s literary output than simply War & Peace and Anna Karenina. Those great masterpieces – and their adaptations – hav...
After Independence Sam Pengelly 11/05/2016 Zimbabwe, 1998. Eighteen years after the country secured its independence from British colonial rule. The Mugabe government is enforcing land-reclamat...
A Steady Rain Camille Hainsworth-Staples 19/02/2016 Joey and Denny have been friends as long as they can remember; they know everything about each other – good and bad. Now they’re partners, cops workin...
The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo / Judith: A Parting from the Body Owen Davies 30/11/2015 This double bill of two short plays by Howard Barker provides an extra-ordinary evening of theatre. The plays are disturbing and challenging – the lan...
The Divided Laing Oliver J. Weinfeld 26/11/2015 Patrick Marmion’s The Divided Laing is billed as a ‘provocative, freewheeling comedy’. It follows experimental psychiatrist Ronald D Laing in 1970s Lo...
Sarai Urvashi Vashist 27/10/2015 Billed as "one woman's epic journey to found a new nation," Sarai is beautifully choreographed by Shane Shambhu; Karlina Grace-Paseda's alternations b...
