Reviewer's Rating Cleansed Nicola Watkinson 05/03/2016erhaps the defining feature of Sarah Kane’s work is problems, both in terms of content and form. Her plays ask...
Reviewer's Rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nicola Watkinson 08/01/2016ctors From the London Stage’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed by only five cast members, with...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Nicola Watkinson 24/12/2015ntic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol takes place in the atmospheric Middle Temple Hall, which dates back to the sixteenth century,...
Wonder.land Nicola Watkinson 19/12/2015amon Albarn’s new musical Wonder.land is a loose modern retelling of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the...
Reviewer's Rating Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Nicola Watkinson 12/12/2015ne of the problems with the story of Sleeping Beauty, according to Matthew Bourne, is the lack of narrative tension:...
Reviewer's Rating The Wasp Nicola Watkinson 12/12/2015ark and intense, Malcolm’s thrilling drama The Wasp is riveting from start to finish. The play follows two women from...
Reviewer's Rating Romeo and Juliet Nicola Watkinson 24/10/2015his production of Romeo and Juliet places the action of Shakespeare’s play during the 1984-5 Kent miners’ strike – an...
Reviewer's Rating Song of Riots Nicola Watkinson 17/10/2015ong of Riots is truly ‘the story of kingdoms lost and won’: written by Lucy Maycock, it follows Lucasz, the...
Reviewer's Rating Wuthering Heights Nicola Watkinson 08/10/2015he National Youth Theatre’s new production of Wuthering Heights is neither a traditional production, nor a complete departure – it...
Reviewer's Rating Jane Eyre Nicola Watkinson 26/09/2015he defining aspect of Cookson’s production of Jane Eyre is fluidity: the set consists of wooden platforms, staircases, and white...