Wonderland at Hampstead Theatre
Director Edward Hall marks the 30th anniversary of the miners’ strike with Beth Steel’s momentous…
Browsing: Theatre
All My Sons
All My Sons is the 10th play by the prolific Arthur Miller and one of…
Handbagged
Following Peter Morgan’s The Audience last year starring HRH Helen Mirren, and the ‘future history’ production of King…
King Charles III
Occasionally, in my idler moments, I’m inclined to lament the state of British literature. Playwriting,…
Strangers on a Train
Laurence Fox and Jack Huston star in this on-stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece…Strangers on a Train…
The Same Deep Water as Me
‘It’s definitely not Shakespeare’. That was how one audience member summed up Nick Payne’s new play during the interval on Wednesday night. But what did they mean?
Pinter’s Patients: The Hothouse
“Set in an ‘institution’ of some description with ‘patients’ referred to only by a series of numbers, The Hothouse is certainly not one of Pinter’s best known plays…”
Murder on the Nile
The latest production from The Agatha Christie Theatre Company was first adapted from Christie’s novel…
Hydrocracker’s New World Order
Set in the fictional Ministry of Cultural Integrity, where a ‘healthy, muscular and tender understanding of our cultural heritage’ is the order of the day, Hydrocracker’s production draws on five of Pinter’s politically motivated short plays.
War Horse
In recent months, Spielberg has returned to the big screen with the re-incarnation of Jurassic Park, then The Adventures of Tintin, and now the filmic interpretation of the Tony award-winning stage production War Horse.
A Pair of Pinter Plays
“One for the road” is such a flippant, jovial expression, isn’t it? Something dads say at the pub. But I’ll never hear the expression in quite the same way again, having seen The Print Room and Young Vic’s co-production of Pinter’s brutal short play.
The Conspirators
In a leafy corner of south west London lives a theatre that has been revered…