Elizabeth Lucy Ashe 19/05/2018 William Tuckett is not satisfied with the version of Elizabeth I that history so often presents to us: a politician, a statesman, a demanding leader o...
Beginning Lucy Ashe 14/10/2017 The curtain opens on the messy aftermath of a house warming party, the clock ticking at 2.45am. Seemingly an odd opening to a play titled Beginning, t...
Camels Lucy Ashe 28/09/2017 From the moment you arrive at The Cockpit, hidden away down the streets of Marylebone, you can be reassured that the evening will provide you with ref...
The Entertainer Lucy Ashe 01/09/2016 The Entertainer is in danger of becoming a dated play, no longer able to speak to an audience with the explosive energy it must have produced in 1957 ...
Doctor Faustus Lucy Ashe 26/04/2016 While Doctor Faustus may be one of Christopher Marlowe’s most daring plays, Jamie Lloyd has taken this to a new level with his bold and mischievous ad...
The Point At Which It Last Made Sense Lucy Ashe 10/10/2015 The point at which it last made sense is one of those rather awkward performances to write about; you know that you should have found it profound, eng...
Wild Card – Botis Seva Lucy Ashe 25/09/2015 Don’t you all want to stay and find out what Botis was trying to say? were the final words I heard as I rushed out of the theatre much later than expe...
Hetain Patel — American Boy Lucy Ashe 29/05/2015 If you love nothing more than watching impressions of iconic American films, listening to a vast range of American accents, and holding your breath as...
A View from the Bridge Lucy Ashe 19/02/2015 Stripped down to a brightly lit box, no furniture except for a single wooden chair, the social realism of Arthur Miller’s tragedy becomes intensely po...
Royal Danish Ballet Soloists and Principals Lucy Ashe 10/01/2015 August Bournonville, choreographer, dancer, and ballet master from the 19th century, has created a beautiful repertoire of ballet that audiences today...