Fanny and Alexander
The Old Vic has done it again – achieved the seemingly impossible. They are currently…
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Written in 1894 in Worthing at the height of his fame, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance…
The Divide
Mention the name Alan Ayckbourn and most people think first of small-scale, often achingly funny,…
The Birthday Party
With blisteringly well crafted characters and dialogue, The Birthday Party was Hackney-born Harold Pinter’s 2nd…
The Case of the Frightened Lady
I caught The Agatha Christie Company’s latest touring thriller production, The Case of the Frightened…
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus. Rape. Cannibalism. Extreme bloodshed. Hardly the recipe for a festive Christmas play. Add…
The Open House
As if we don’t have any worthy contemporary British playwrights to showcase, following German writer…
The RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra
Standing on the platform at the Barbican tube after the RSC’s performance of Antony and…
Morality and Merriment: A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic
It’s always something of a pleasure to see a production with no preconceptions ahead of…
Christmas Eve
Niamh Cusack and Patrick Baladi star in German playwright Daniel Kehlman’s Christmas Eve, directed by…
Young Marx
To say that expectations were high for the opening of London’s newest theatre, the Bridge,…
The Railway Children
This Exeter Northcott and Nick Brooke production of The Railway Children directed by Paul Jepson,…