Reading Time: 2 minutesPlenty of drama and constant hostility, but surprisingly little reason to care Natalie Ekberg’s HIM, directed by Simon Fielding, centres on a high-stakes modern family dynamic with figures from the past bringing drama and intrigue. When Jane…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A courageous attempt to Arendt through Brechtian techniques” In May 1940, three German Jewish women are arrested at Camp Gurs in France: Hannah Arendt the political thinker, Charlotte Salomon the artist, and Eva Daube the communist. Drawing…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Georg Büchner died in 1837, he left Woyzeck unfinished. Its fragmentary nature has invited numerous adaptations over the past century, and Franz & Marie at the Charing Cross Theatre is the latest attempt to give it a shape.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSting’s musical The Last Ship arrives at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with big ambitions, trying to tell a story of industrial decline, community spirit, and past romance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA play about climate change that feels like a play about climate change We need plays about climate change. John Webber valiantly rises to the challenge with Fire Fire but gives us a rather predictable premise: the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA clumsily-written farce about modern-day grave robbing
Reading Time: 2 minutesCoatgirl is working the back-of-house drudgery of her ten-year school reunion, banished to the coat room while her peers enjoy the party.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAny attempt to bring Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities to life is laudable. His whimsical, imaginative neo-fables exist in the hinterland between philosophy, science and fantasy, making them indisputably difficult to translate into any other medium.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn paper, BLISS has all the ingredients of a West End hit. Produced by the powerhouse team behind Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller, and boasting a cast stacked with West End performers, expectations were naturally high. On the outside, it looks exceptionally promising.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore of a slow trickle than a roaring torrent of laughs