Theatre
Tipping the Velvet, Lyric HammersmithTuesday, 29 September 2015
Theatre is in the very bones of this bold adaptation, with the Lyric gifted a cameo role: past productions are fleetingly pastiched in a flashback to the era of the venue’s foundation. Laura Wade and Lyndsey Turner translate the vividly... Read more... |
10 Questions for Actress Jane LapotaireMonday, 28 September 2015
Jane Lapotaire's distinguished career on stage and screen was cut short in 2000 when she collapsed in Paris with a massive brain haemorrhage. She was giving a Shakespeare masterclass at the time and now, 15 years later, at the age of 70, she is once... Read more... |
The Sweethearts, Finborough TheatreMonday, 28 September 2015
Entertaining our troops overseas has already proved a fruitful subject for drama, and not only for its show-within-a-show potential. Peter Nichols’ Privates on Parade – revived in the West End three years ago – combined latrine-level... Read more... |
Iliad: War Music, National Theatre WalesSaturday, 26 September 2015
Iliad is the third collaboration between National Theatre Wales and “the two Mikes”, directorial duo Pearson and Brookes. The pair have been responsible for two previous highlights of the still young company’s back catalogue, The Persians (2010) and... Read more... |
Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare's GlobeFriday, 25 September 2015
“Comedy, love and a bit with a dog,” counselled Henslowe in Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love, and his populist advice is taken to heart in this broad, bawdy, big-hearted farce untroubled by nuanced characterisation or context. Jessica Swale’s ... Read more... |
Living Quarters, Tobacco Factory Theatres, BristolFriday, 25 September 2015
Brian Friel’s Living Quarters ranks with his best plays but isn’t well known. This powerful story of family dysfunction was first performed in the UK in 1991, directed by Andrew Hilton for Bristol’s legendary pub theatre company Show of Strength and... Read more... |
Waiting for Godot, Royal Lyceum Theatre, EdinburghThursday, 24 September 2015
It’s been a turbulent few months for Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, with a substantial cut in funding from Creative Scotland last October, followed by the (unrelated) announcement that Mark Thomson, artistic director since 2003, would step down at the... Read more... |
Dinner with Saddam, Menier Chocolate FactoryWednesday, 23 September 2015
Writer Anthony Horowitz is a busy man. Having written more than 40 books, he has also worked in many media. One year, he’s penning another series of the ever-popular Foyle’s War; the next he’s reviving the world of Sherlock Holmes in novels such as... Read more... |
Martyr, Unicorn TheatreWednesday, 23 September 2015
Following a dangerously selective reading of a religious text, 15-year-old Benjamin has adopted a fundamentalist doctrine that espouses misogynist, homophobic and puritanical views and, at its extreme, violence. Neither his mum nor his teachers know... Read more... |
Mr Foote’s Other Leg, Hampstead TheatreTuesday, 22 September 2015
The actor and historian Ian Kelly is fascinated by the way that performers use the theatre to understand not only themselves, but also the world. In this new play, he looks at the life and career of Samuel Foote, one of the larger-than-life figures... Read more... |
The restoration of Nell GwynnTuesday, 22 September 2015
I never thought I’d be a writer. Writers are people with something to say, big ideas, agendas. I was a director, through and through. I love working with actors, playing with music and text, thinking in three dimensions. The solitary confinement of... Read more... |
The Encounter, Bristol Old VicMonday, 21 September 2015
Complicite have, for several decades, been Britain’s most consistently adventurous theatre company. The term "physical theatre" sells them short, for the intelligence of their shows, from The Street of Crocodiles to The Elephant Vanishes, The... Read more... |
