Peter Pan Rebecca Coates 03/12/2016 To fly, you must be young, and innocent, and heartless – or so Wendy (Madeleine Worrall) tells us, and it is this emphasis on the heartlessness of ete...
The Threepenny Opera Nicholas Potter 22/08/2016 Norris’s production of The Threepenny Opera is fantastically ugly: Brecht’s London is full of vagrants and harlots, a truly Dickensian bunch, motivate...
Young Chekhov Owen Davies 04/08/2016 At the Olivier Theatre on the South Bank it is now possible – if you have the stamina - to see, on one day, the first three plays written by the great...
Sunset at Villa Thalia Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2016 Alexi Campbell’s The Pride was highly successful in interweaving two separate periods of time in order to juxtapose contrasting attitudes in Britain t...
Les Blancs Chris Bridges 08/04/2016 Lorraine Hansberry was an intriguing writer; a young, gifted black woman (the song of the same name by Nina Simone was written about her). She was the...
Brainstorm Joshua Korber Hoffman 02/04/2016 My brain isn't broken, says a solitary teenager on stage. Life as a teenager isn't easy; it's confusing, frustrating and terrifying. But it is excitin...
Cleansed Nicola Watkinson 05/03/2016 Perhaps the defining feature of Sarah Kane’s work is problems, both in terms of content and form. Her plays ask us to consider love, gender, mental il...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Oscar Balfour 03/02/2016 White folks don’t understand about the blues. They hear it come out but they don’t know how it got there. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is in town to tell ...
Wonder.land Nicola Watkinson 19/12/2015 Damon Albarn’s new musical Wonder.land is a loose modern retelling of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass; in this ...
Here We Go Alastair Curtis 01/12/2015 It comes at you suddenly, doesn’t it: death that is, though the character could easily be describing Caryl Churchill’s new play. In a nifty forty five...
