Review: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
byMeta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the level of wit as distinguishes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and…
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Review: National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
byWritten at the mid-point of his career Twelfth Night (or, What you Will) is arguably the standout best comedy that Shakespeare ever wrote. Adapted…
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: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
byKing Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
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…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
byIn post-WWII London, Hester Collyer (Helen McCrory) is the wife of a barrister-turned-high court judge. But she wouldn’t say as much. She couldn’t say…
Review: National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
byThe McDonagh brothers have produced some of the best written and most genuinely funny plays and films in recent memory. John Michael McDonagh achieved…
Review: National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2015)
byIt’s safe to say that this is not something to take your kids to. After all, as they say, kids can be cruel, and…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2015)
byTaking the now common route of casting a male in the role of Lady Bracknell, Adrian Noble directs his own version of Oscar Wilde’s…