Crime and Punishment by Theatre Collection
Crime and Punishment is daunting. Its author’s name is difficult to pronounce and spell. It is long and dark and it was written long ago …
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A Tale to finish Winter with: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at EUSC
The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company is the real deal. I shamefully never got to any of the student productions at my native Imperial College, so …
A Place at the Table at the Tristan Bates Theatre
What starts off as a play you think will predominantly explore the extremes to which political correctness is taken – sometimes creating just the awkwardness …
The Arcola Theatre’s The Pitchfork Disney
The Pitchfork Disney: violence meets childhood reverie and memory. Written in 1991, Philip Ridley’s graphic and beautiful script is gory, frightening and funny in a …
In Basildon, In Chelsea: In Basildon at the Royal Court Theatre
Uncle Len is on his deathbed, surrounded by Ken, Dooren, Maureen and Barry. East End grudges and West Ham football anthems hang in the air …
It’s a new Dawn, it’s a new Day: The Recruiting Officer at the Donmar Warehouse
I have only known the Donmar Warehouse and its productions – can they do no wrong? – through the eyes of Michael Grandage. With a …
Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse, December 2011
Here lies the end of an era – both on and off stage. Richard II as King of England and Michael Grandage as artistic director …
Earthquakes in London Causes a Rumble
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave …