REVIEW: Talking Heads, The Shrine, BBC iPlayer ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Monica Dolan in The Shrine, part of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series now playing on BBC iPlayer. Watch now!
Monica Dolan
Donmar’s new artistic director reveals first season
A diverse mix of new plays and revivals has been announced for Michael Longhurst’s first season as artistic director of London’s Donmar Warehouse.
Tickets on sale for All About Eve with Gillian Anderson and Lily James
Tickets go on sale today (27 September) for the new West End stage adaptation of classic movie All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James at the Noel Coward Theatre.
REVIEW: Nassim, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Bush Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭✭
But, while politics lurks in the background, Nassim is about the things that are common to all of us beyond language and cultural differences.
REVIEW: The Beasts, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭
Dolan gives a powerfully underplayed performance, avoiding sensationalism but exploring the issues in a way that is unsettling and uncomfortable
The B*easts comes to the Edinburgh Festival
In The B*easts, BAFTA award-winning actress Monica Dolan explores how far one mum will go to put what her child wants first.
REVIEW: Plaques and Tangles, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs ✭✭✭
As Young Megan, whom we first meet when she is recovering from the one-night-stand night before, is brought to complex, life-embracing realisation in a startlingly good performance by Rosalind Eleazar. Eleazar makes every moment sing with honesty, and sets up beautifully the challenges Megan will face/ignore/be overcome by in her life. Her scenes with Robert Lonsdale’s Young Jez are far and away the most involving of the production.
REVIEW: The Twits, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭
With both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda still playing with great success elsewhere, this is the latest attempt to bring Dahl’s unique alchemy of moralised, uplifting, yet also disturbing, and quirky childhood adventure to the London stage. However, unfortunately this current adaptation cannot stand alongside those two multi-layered yet flexible masterpieces with any great conviction.
