Mayfair Flower Show at Sketch
Strolling into Sketch (a former Dior atelier) on a normal day is like falling into…
Author Allana Isaacs
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Young Vic
It is rare that you see one of your favourite plays in a completely new…
The Glass Menagerie
Landing in the West End via Broadway and a spell at the Edinburgh Festival, The…
RSC’s King Lear at the Barbican
My first introduction to King Lear was at a school play. My brother, who sits…
The Dresser
Plays about the inner working of a theatre tend to go one of two ways,…
No’s Knife
The last time I was presented with a flickering eye projection before a show was…
RSC’s Doctor Faustus
Most theatre goers are familiar with walking through the auditorium doors and having anywhere between…
Mrs Lowry and Son
“I am a man who paints. Nothing more nothing less. I paint what I see. I paint how I feel.” Allana reviews the new stage production…
Hysteria at Hampstead Theatre
Sigmund Freud meets Salvador Dali in a thought-provoking play at the Hampstead Theatre…
A Doll’s House
“Strikingly resonant and exquisitely executed, beg, borrow, steal to get your hands on a ticket.” Allana reviews A Doll’s House at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life
Lowry’s predictable style can be recognised by even the most unobservant of museum visitor; the…