Digital revival of Little Wars with all-star female cast announced
All-star cast announced for digital revival of Steven Carl McCasland’s Little Wars to stream from 3 – 8 November 2020. Book Now!
Juliet Stevenson
Donmar re-opens in August with Blindness- a sound installation voiced by Juliet Stevenson
The Donmar Warehouse is to re-open temporarily this August with Blindness – a socially distanced sound installation voiced by Juliet Stevenson.
REVIEW: The Doctor, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Libby Purves reviews The Doctor very freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi by Robert Icke now playing at thew Almeida Theatre, London.
REVIEW: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Alas poor Sherlock, we know it well. Even in the opening scenes of this ingenious production, it was clear that Andrew Scott would more than match his TV co-star Cumberbatch.
CRITIC’S CHOICE 2016 : Mark Ludmon
We asked our reviewers to take a look at 2016 and to nominate some stand out productions for 2016. Mark Ludmon replied with the following:- In another wonderful year for British theatre, one of my highlights was Annie Baker’s The Flick at the Dorfman at the National Theatre, unfolding the quiet desperations and joys of young people working at a small independent cinema in Massachusetts. Despite its running time of three-and-a-quarter hours and long silences, it was an absorbing, beautiful play with perfectly pitched performances. A powerful performance by Billie Piper made Yerma at the Young Vic stand out for me. Simon Stone’s modern adaptation played pretty freely with Lorca’s original, creating a stunning, heart-breaking drama about the despair of childlessness, played out within a glass box to add to a feeling we were glimpsing private horrors. My favourite show of the year has come at the end: Schiller’s Mary … Read more
REVIEW: Mary Stuart, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This production brings out Schiller’s themes in a compelling and lucid way while also being an exciting political thriller and a very personal drama about two women trapped by forces greater than themselves.
REVIEW: Happy Days, Young Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Happy Days is not a happy play. It is Beckett at his most confronting, most understandable, relentlessly surreal and disturbing. Essentially a monologue, it is an endurance test for both actress and audience.
