Waste Tim Hochstrasser 13/11/2015 Harley Granville-Barker is nowadays not a well-known name at all, and yet a century ago he dominated the London theatre scene. He was the lead actor i...
Jane Eyre Nicola Watkinson 26/09/2015 The defining aspect of Cookson’s production of Jane Eyre is fluidity: the set consists of wooden platforms, staircases, and white drapes, creating an ...
Our Country’s Good Samantha Cheh 28/08/2015 Anchored by the full force of the National’s staging abilities, Our Country’s Good transports us to 1787, early in the long colonisation of Australia....
Three Days in the Country Owen Davies 01/08/2015 Turgenev’s masterpiece has lured many writers to take up the challenge of adapting it for their own times. In this fine National Theatre production, P...
The Red Lion Patrick Armstrong 29/06/2015 This new play by Patrick Marber is about many things: football, morality, ritual. Above all, however, the play poses the question, what does it mean t...
The Hard Problem Sophie Nevrkla 01/05/2015 Tom Stoppard is one of Britain’s most prolific playwrights, and one of the few to have produced a new piece in every decade that the National Theatre ...
The Silver Tassie Owen Davies 26/04/2014 Sean O’Casey’s anti-war play was famously rejected by W B Yeats for its first production at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Yeats may have had good reaso...
A Small Family Business Owen Davies 07/04/2014 Alan Ayckbourn apparently hates being described as a political playwright but “A Small Family Business”, revived at the National Theatre 27 years afte...
King Lear Owen Davies 04/02/2014 King Lear may have a reputation as the summit of Shakespeare’s craft as a tragedian but it is a play that too often eludes the director and exposes th...
Liolà Katerina Yannouli 19/10/2013 Sicily, summer 1916. The village women finish harvesting Old Simone’s almond crop, and we are introduced to the characters through their cheerful sing...
