A love/Eight relationship
Based on a survey that asked British people in their twenties to identify the experiences and qualities which most accurately summarised their generation, Ella Hickson’s award winning Eight…
De ja two stars: New Beginnings at the BT
‘Write what you know,’ they said, and the similarities between New Beginnings and The Inbetweeners hit you in the face as soon as the lights come up on the Burton…
You Kafka see it: Bad Faith at BT
Low, blue lights illumine a simple set. One teenager is sprawled across a bed, another draped across a wooden chair; a third sits hunched, reading what looks suspiciously like…
Furst-rate acting but a far from purrfect tail: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Simpkins Lee
I’ll tell it to you straight – this is a cool, polished, calculated rendering of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but it doesn’t carry conviction. The play begins as…
Is-mene things wrong with Antigone at the O’Reilly
Jingan Young’s Antigone After Sophocles sets the ancient tragedy against the backdrop of the 2011 London riots. Antigone is a popular play for adaptation because of the lasting relevance of the questions it raises. Must we obey the…
Princess Ida: bad pitch contest, you in first place
The longest and, arguably, most vocally difficult of the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, Princess Ida mostly involves two things: milking the timeless trope of men prancing around in women’s skirts,…
Laramie, Wy-aren’t-you-coming?, USA
A challenging play and an ambitious undertaking for any company, The Laramie Project is the response of playwright Moisés Kaufman to the 1998 murder of Laramie-local Matthew Shepherd – a young…
The Cherry Orchard: one to Chek’ov your list this term
For anyone as unfamiliar with Chekhov as I am, this is a good place to start. The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov’s last play – and one of his most highly regarded…
