Long Day’s Journey into Night Sarah Gibbs 08/02/2018 I tend to give marathoners a bit of leeway. It’s difficult to begrudge runners a few wobbles in a race that would kill most of us, especially when it’...
No Man’s Land Rebecca Coates 21/09/2016 In a play preoccupied with a no-man’s land of frozen stasis, and the desire to once again reach solidity, the set allows for no such illusions. The tr...
The Truth Paul Meltzer 01/07/2016 With a portentous title like "The Truth", one might expect a searing drama in this latest outing from the author of The Father, the play for which Fra...
People, Places, Things Luke Davies 26/03/2016 The experimental psychiatrist R.D. Laing once argued that what is widely regarded as mental illness is in fact a rational response to an irrational si...
Hangmen Oliver J. Weinfeld 11/12/2015 Interior, public house. Oldham. The North. England, 1965. Welcome to the office of Harry Wade, Britain’s last (and second-most-famous) hangman. Or...
The Father Rivka Jacobson 08/10/2015 Be prepared for a brief hour and 25 minutes of a totally absorbing, gripping and unsettling journey, when you take your seat at the Wyndham’s theatre ...
The Mentalists Kate Mounce 16/07/2015 Emblazoned across the advertisements for Richard Bean’s revived production of The Mentalists are all the reasons it should be a success. Success it mo...
A View from the Bridge Lucy Ashe 19/02/2015 Stripped down to a brightly lit box, no furniture except for a single wooden chair, the social realism of Arthur Miller’s tragedy becomes intensely po...
Three Sisters Mel Cooper 26/04/2014 Konchalovsky is not only a legendary film-maker but, on the evidence of his productions now in London, a great theatre director. The two productions o...
Uncle Vanya David Holloway 25/04/2014 Chekhov’s Uncle Vanyais subtitled Scenes from County Life in Four Acts and the irony is apparent at the outset of Konchalovsky’s production with Mosco...
