Denis O’Hare to make National Theatre debut in Tartuffe
Denis O’Hare is to make his National Theatre debut playing the title role in John Donnelly’s new adaptation of Moliere’s comic masterpiece Tartuffe.
Oliver Fenwick
REVIEW: Holy Shit, Kiln Theatre ✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Holy Shit, a new play by Alexis Zegerman now playing at the Kiln Theatre (Formerly the Tricycle Theatre)
Carey Mulligan cast in Dennis Kelly’s Girls and Boy at Royal Court
The Royal Court has announced that Carey Mulligan has been cast in the world premiere of Dennis Kelly’s play Girls and Boys.
REVIEW: Right Now, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭✭
A Freudian wet dream, the characters drink, dance and dare each other on further with party games and peculiar eroticism.
REVIEW: To Kill A Mockingbird, Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Timothy Sheader’s utterly astonishing, profoundly beautiful, and intensely gripping production of To Kill A Mockngbird, is now playing at the Barbican Theatre. It’s not practically perfect in every way – it is absolutely perfect in every way. In terms of glorious story-telling and superb ensemble acting rapturously telling a richly detailed and extraordinarily resonant – but sublimely simple – tale, there is nothing to touch this production (bar Gypsy) currently playing in London.
REVIEW: The Motherf**ker With The Hat, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭✭
It’s not that this is a bad play; it’s more that it is not really a play at all. It’s a series of separate scenes, mostly two-handers, which chiefly concern the central character, Jackie. It doesn’t really have any compelling over-arching theme, there is no lyrical, poetic or political beauty to the language, and it does not attempt to shine a light on society or culture in any significant way. It looks and sounds like a short film – not a coherent, magnificent drama worthy of the Lyttleton stage.
REVIEW: The Jew Of Malta, Swan Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a play where the inhabitants of a Nunnery are slain by poisoned porridge; where the daughter of a Jew becomes a Christian Nun, twice; where, having purchased a Thracian slave, owner and slave engage in a bout of one-upmanship about the vile deeds they claim to enjoy; where Friars are referred to as “religious caterpillars”; where the Jew inquires if theft is the basis of Christianity; where a Friar casually asks if the Jew has been “crucifying children”; and where no one, really, has any redeeming features. It all but screams farce, even if some of the subject matter is repugnant and, sadly, deadly accurate.
