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…
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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: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017)
byThe marathon length National Theatre Live performance of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well be one of the most immersive cinema experiences of…
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 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…
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 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…