Review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre
How much would you give up to get what you want? Doctor Faustus decided everything. Shipped off his soul to the devil with a blindfold over anything called cons...
Camilla Gurtler
Review: The Suicide, National Theatre
On paper The Suicide should be flawless. Attacking the bloodthirsty social media followers and their see-through empathy, the National would have hit it with th...
Review: I Capuleti E I Montecchi, Pop-Up Opera
When working in a conventional art form such as opera, with its roots stubbornly planted in the past, it can be difficult to imagine it shining a new light on t...
Review: Beacons, Park Theatre
Beachy Head in Eastbourne is one of the world’s most popular suicide spots. You could say the site evokes a sense of mystery, a magnetic pulling-force; that the...
Review: Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes, Park Theatre
Following Simon McBurney’s hyped spectacular that was The Encounter, it is both exciting and slightly puzzling to find another play on the London scene that exp...
Review: The Encounter, Barbican
It’s not too bold to say that The Encounter is out of this world. Simon McBurney’s one-man show is simply like nothing you’ve ever experienced. And it is a tota...
Camilla Gurtler
Camilla is a director and writer originally from Denmark, now living in London. She trained on the Young Directors' Programme with StoneCrabs Theatre Company and is currently doing her MA in Directing at Drama Centre.