Reviewer's Rating Henry V Rowena Hawkins 01/04/2016hakespeare’s most nationalistic play, set in the trenches, in a production to celebrate the anniversaries of the Battle of Agincourt,...
Reviewer's Rating Table Top Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors/ Titus Andronicus/ The Merchant of Venice Rowena Hawkins 06/03/2016hile Gregory Doran’s RSC makes its way slowly but surely through the Complete Works of William Shakespeare up in Stratford-upon-Avon...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Rowena Hawkins 12/12/2015ot since the Muppets’ Christmas Carol has there been such a spirited adaptation of Charles Dickens’ fable in which miserly...
Reviewer's Rating Desperate Measures Rowena Hawkins 29/11/2015eave your Complete Works at the door – Desperate Measures, a bold new take on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by...
Reviewer's Rating The Homecoming Rowena Hawkins 24/11/2015n this 50th anniversary revival, Jamie Lloyd ramps up the tension and presents Pinter’s family drama The Homecoming as a...
Reviewer's Rating A Broadcast/Looping Pieces & The Notebook Rowena Hawkins 08/11/2015efore Forced Entertainment’s celebrated rendition of Agota Kristof’s harrowing novel The Notebook returns to Battersea Arts Centre where it made...
Reviewer's Rating The Hairy Ape Rowena Hawkins 04/11/2015ugene O’Neill’s classic American existential drama The Hairy Ape is strikingly staged in a new outing at the Old Vic directed...
Reviewer's Rating The Merchant of Vembley Rowena Hawkins 14/10/2015opical, politically provocative and truly passionate, The Merchant of Vembley uproots Shakespeare’s Venetian tragedy from the City of Masks to...
Reviewer's Rating The Barber of Seville Rowena Hawkins 12/10/2015ow a well-tried and tested part of the English National Opera’s Repertoire, Jonathan Miller’s production of Rossini’s comic opera The...
Reviewer's Rating Merchant of Venice Rowena Hawkins 08/10/2015he Merchant of Venice has been everywhere recently. The RSC’s version closed last month, Shakespeare’s Globe’s Merchant played earlier in...
