REVIEW: Mary, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭
Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Rona Munro’s play Mary at Hampstead Theatre.
Rona Munro
REVIEW: Five From Inside, Traverse Theatre Online ✭✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews the Traverse Theatre’s Five From Inside, five monologues by Rona Munro which have been rehearsed in isolation which are now online.
Frankenstein UK Tour
A new theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will tour in 2019. The Frankenstein UK Tour starts in September at the Perth Theatre.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin UK Tour and West End
Book tickets for the Captain Corelli’s Mandolin UK Tour. This first major stage production of Louis De Bernieres book is now underway.
REVIEW: My Name Is Lucy Barton, Bridge Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Laura Linney in My Name Is Lucy Barton now playing at the Bridge Theatre
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
REVIEW: James III – The True Miror, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Sansom imbues this play with a reckless, frenetic energy, a listlessness that reflects the monarch’s temperament and a sexy, splendid pulse that tantalises and intrigues. The story telling is very clear, very theatrical, but the sense of real history is strong.
REVIEW: James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Spare, visceral and gripping, this is an extraordinarily wonderful production of an important and difficult new play, which shines a light onto forgotten events and examines them in an entirely satisfying theatrical way. It leaves you desperate to see what happens next.
