REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Reading Time: 3 minutesLove's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's least frequently staged comedies, but it is an undervalued, entertaining piece of work.
Category Drama
REVIEW: Good For Her
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you read Jennette McCurdy’s acclaimed memoir I’m Glad My Mum Died and think hmm, I wish this was more unhinged? Then boy, do I have a show for you.
REVIEW: Anne Boleyn
Reading Time: 2 minutesHoward Brenton's script, first commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, refuses the traditional biography to adapt to a ghost story.
REVIEW: Rika’s Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesRika’s Rooms is a one woman play based on the life of the playwright Gail Louw’s own mother, whose extraordinary life is borne of vast historical events that traumatised swathes of humanity.
REVIEW: The Truth
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlorian Zeller's The Truth, currently playing at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, is a witty, fast-paced exploration of deception, infidelity and the uncomfortable grey area between honesty and self-preservation.
REVIEW: Sting
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the next hour and a half, playwright Sophie Swithinbank gives us cults, arson, serial murderers, pet rabbits, sexual violence, and anaphylaxis in her valiant effort to explore control.
REVIEW: The Beach Is A Place For Looking
Reading Time: 3 minutesAgnelle Groombridge's new work catches that moment, and the fact that it does so in under forty minutes with two performers, two towels, and a fan, speaks well of what the piece is already doing right.
REVIEW: Single White Female
Reading Time: 2 minutesA modernised reimagining of the 90s thriller
REVIEW: The P Word
Reading Time: 2 minutesWaleed Akhtar’s The P Word is both an example of theatrical genius and of the power theatre holds in its storytelling.
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Reading Time: 3 minutesSarah Tresilian’s vision in creating the Shakespeers theatre company and directing this first play was to make Shakespeare accessible to all, pulling it away from elitism and delivering it back to the public.