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...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nicola Watkinson 08/01/2016 Actors From the London Stage’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed by only five cast members, with minimal props, no set, and no ...
A Christmas Carol Nicola Watkinson 24/12/2015 Antic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol takes place in the atmospheric Middle Temple Hall, which dates back to the sixteenth century, and which Dickens ...
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 ...
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Nicola Watkinson 12/12/2015 One of the problems with the story of Sleeping Beauty, according to Matthew Bourne, is the lack of narrative tension: Aurora is a fairly two-dimension...
The Wasp Nicola Watkinson 12/12/2015 Dark and intense, Malcolm’s thrilling drama The Wasp is riveting from start to finish. The play follows two women from very different backgrounds, who...
Romeo and Juliet Nicola Watkinson 24/10/2015 This production of Romeo and Juliet places the action of Shakespeare’s play during the 1984-5 Kent miners’ strike – an interesting directorial choice,...
Song of Riots Nicola Watkinson 17/10/2015 Song of Riots is truly ‘the story of kingdoms lost and won’: written by Lucy Maycock, it follows Lucasz, the only son of a Polish single mother, and a...
Wuthering Heights Nicola Watkinson 08/10/2015 The National Youth Theatre’s new production of Wuthering Heights is neither a traditional production, nor a complete departure – it is somewhere in be...
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 ...
