Review: NT Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
byMost familiar to Sherlock fans as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s chiding elder brother, Mark Gatiss has until now been known more as a character actor…
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Review: National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
byWhen one of the finest actors of his generation leads in a play by the greatest writer in the history of the English language…
Review: National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018)
byI can only imagine how daunting it must be to contemplate adapting the Scottish play for stage and then wonder how on earth you…
Review: National Theatre Live: Young Marx (2018)
byKarl Marx. A name that inspires equal amounts of fervent respect and spiteful hatred, depending on which group you’re talking to. A genius of…
Review: National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017)
byAt only 33, Australian actor/director Simon Stone is a name that most diehard theatre lovers will know. If you haven’t, be prepared to hear…
Review: National Theatre Live: Angels in America (2017)
by“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.” – Harper Pitt, Angels in…
Review: National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)
byLuchino Visconti’s 1943 film Ossessione may be one of the lasting classics of Italian neo-realist cinema, but judging by Ivo van Hove’s clumsy adaptation…
Review: National Theatre Life: Amadeus (2016)
by‘Amadeus’ means ‘love of God’. It’s interpreted in a few ways but in this context it would mean ‘beloved of the Almighty’; the big…
Review: National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
byIn 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in London, the “two Sirs” Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)
bySuch a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus Norris‘ staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Its…