Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Mel Cooper 05/04/2018Instead of being about the corruption of power, or about the unconscious power of guilt, this new production of Macbeth...
Reviewer's Rating The Duchess of Malfi Mel Cooper 20/03/2018The DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster is one of the most difficult plays of the Jacobean Era both to...
Laura Canning in conversation with Mel Cooper Mel Cooper 19/03/2018With the summer opera festivals coming soon, I was able to meet with Laura Canning, the Director of Artistic Administration...
Reviewer's Rating The Winslow Boy Mel Cooper 14/03/2018The new production of Terence Rattigan’s 1946 hit play THE WINSLOW BOY that is touring the UK is a vivid...
Reviewer's Rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mel Cooper 10/03/2018I am something of a fan of Benjamin Britten’s opera of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I like the music, the...
Reviewer's Rating Cilla, The Musical Mel Cooper 16/02/2018At one level this is just another well-put-together biographical show in the tried and true genre of musicals based on...
Reviewer's Rating Imperium: The Cicero Plays Mel Cooper 08/01/2018The RSC has done a remarkable job of turning Robert Harris’s Cicero Trilogy into a stage work. By summarizing the...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Mel Cooper 18/12/2017David Edgar, who adapted Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby into an 8-hour epic nearly forty years ago, has managed to adapt...
Reviewer's Rating Twelfth Night Mel Cooper 21/11/2017he new RSC production of Twelfth Night is visually stunning and musically opulent. This, the play by Shakespeare that has...
Reviewer's Rating Mamma Mia Mel Cooper 19/11/2017here is very little one can do to analyse Mamma Mia! any longer because most people have seen the film...
