Review: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 18 June 2017 Meta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the…
Theatrical
Review: National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 2 June 2017 Written at the mid-point of his career Twelfth Night (or, What you Will) is arguably…
Review: National Theatre Life: Amadeus (2016)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 3 May 2017 ‘Amadeus’ means ‘love of God’. It’s interpreted in a few ways but in this context…
Review: National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
byWritten by Kendal Coombs Originally published 30 January 2017 In 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in…
Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 24 November 2016 King Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 11 November 2016 Such a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 5 October 2016 In post-WWII London, Hester Collyer (Helen McCrory) is the wife of a barrister-turned-high court judge….
Review: National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 16 May 2016 The McDonagh brothers have produced some of the best written and most genuinely funny plays…
Review: National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2015)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 7 April 2016 It’s safe to say that this is not something to take your kids to. After…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2015)
byWritten by Amy Taylor Originally published 8 February 2016 Taking the now common route of casting a male in the role of Lady Bracknell,…