Troy has fallen. The city has been destroyed and its people slaughtered. The few survivors are prisoners of the Greek Army which is waiting to sail back to Greece. The army is disintegrating in the wake of its victory, but the killing continues. The fate of the prisoners hangs in the balance. We have found this [...] Read more »
The Master and Margarita
Following its sell-out run earlier this year, The Master and Margarita returns to the Barbican in December to play over Christmas and into the new year.Mikhail Bulgakov’s rich, magical realist novel with its intertwining storylines pits the power of evil against the power of compassion. We have found this show reviewed on a number of websites [...] Read more »
Desire Under the Elms Review
A guitar is heard struming as a farm comes to life with the buzz of the world awakening. Transported from the Lyric Hammersmith, the audience is taken to the rural and remote farmland of New England where people move a bit slower and work the land till their bones grow weary with exertion. As the lights [...] Read more »
An Extraordinary Evening: Open House by Nice Work if You Can Get It
On a very dark and rainy night I was swept away by a new company called Nice Work if You Can Get It (brilliant name!). The company have taken over the peculiar yet beautiful Brunswick House, a lovely regency building which is an antiques shop/ restaurant and now a unique performance space! The restaurant is [...] Read more »
The Second Mrs Tanquery Review
In 1893 ‘The Second Mrs Tanquery’ premiered to reviews such as “a dramatic masterpiece” and “the greatest play of modern times”. In context this was probably true as it is a story that challenges gender roles, morality and values that Victorian audiences would have recognised as the heart and basis of their society. This is the [...] Read more »
The Woyzeck Review
Last Friday I went to the New Diorama to watch the Acting Like Mad production of The Woyzeck. For anyone who has not been to this venue, it’s a newly opened (2010) black box space which seats between 80 and 100 people. The space should have been perfect for the play but sadly even this [...] Read more »
4.48 Psychosis Review
4.48 Psychosis is a very intense piece written by Sarah Kane, it is a piece that navigates the mindset of the clinically depressed. Kane suffered with severe depression so the piece is cuttingly specific. The piece was first performed at the Royal Court a year and a half after Kane’s suicide. Kane wrote the piece [...] Read more »
I Am A Camera Review
I Am a Camera makes for a fine theatrical adaptation. Inspired by Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 semi-autobiographical novel, Goodbye to Berlin, in which Isherwood novelised his experience of a time spent in Berlin in the early 1930s, John Van Druten recreated it for Broadway, a feat that went on to inspire both the musical and the film, Cabaret. Druten’s play faintly follows the [...] Read more »
A Life in the Theatre Review
Upstairs at the Gatehouse is a theatre venue above the Gatehouse pub in the very lovely Highgate area of London. The atmosphere of this theatre is passionate and exciting, and the spectators who were eagerly awaiting the house doors to open really seemed like theatre lovers; there just to enjoy themselves. I felt instantly welcomed [...] Read more »
Vieux Carré Review
London saw an awful lot of Tennessee Williams in 2011, the centenary of his birth, ranging from the sublime Kingdom of Earth at the Print Room to the disappointing A Cavalier for Milady at Jermyn Street. The King’s Head belatedly presents us with a 101st birthday gift, the autobiographical Vieux Carré. The play is set in [...] Read more »
