Reviews
4.48 Psychosis at the Barbican
4.48 Psychosis, at the Barbican Theatre this week is Sarah Kane’s last play, written at the very end of the…
King Lear at the Courtyard Theatre
There is no Hollywood ending in David Farr’s RSC Lear at the Courtyard theatre in Stratford-on-Avon.
Catastrophe Trilogy by Lone Twin at the Barbican
Different rules apply to a conceptual three-parter like Lone Twin’s Catastrophe Trilogy, currently in the Pit theatre at the Barbican.
11 and 12 at the Barbican Theatre in London
11 and 12, directed by Peter Brook, is a 100 minute meditation on religious tolerance.
Nic Green's Trilogy at the Barbican
Nic Green’s stirring and very moving Trilogy, at the Barbican last weekend, wears its message firmly on its often naked…
Arabian Nights
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: An adaptation of a classic book for stage or screen is usually greeted with howls of protest…
THEATRE REVIEW - Nation, National Theatre
Terry Pratchett’s Nation, adapted for the Olivier stage at the National Theatre by Mark Ravenhill, is set squarely at the…
Ennio Marchetto: Living Paper Cartoon
SOUTHBANK CENTRE: Ennio Marchetto is a dynamo of a man, and in full flight in his one man show, you…
THEATRE REVIEW - The Fahrenheit Twins, Barbican
I have not read Michael Faber’s The Fahrenheit Twins but seeing Told by an Idiot’s stage version of it in…
THEATRE REVIEW - Pains of Youth, National Theatre
The one thing aphorisms about 'youth' have in common is a consensus that it is good to be young. Not…