Review: Where the Hell is Bernard?, Blue Elephant Theatre
Where the Hell is Bernard? straddles a strange space between dystopian drama and mime. This Edinburgh preview of the play poses questions, but during the hour-l...
Charlotte Irwin
Review: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Noel Coward Theatre
Watching The Lieutenant of Inishmore you get the feeling that everyone on stage is having a good time. That might just be down to the darkly comic script as pen...
Review: The Turn of the Screw, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is a story that never feels solved. It demands the questions of who is evil and who is good, yet leaves the answer to ambigui...
Review: A Fortunate Man, Camden People’s Theatre
John Berger’s A Fortunate Man – accompanied by Jean Mohr’s photographs – was published in 1967, as a 50:50 collaboration between writer and photographer. The me...
Review: Julie, National Theatre
This updated version of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, drops the Miss, and plunges us into a modernised upstairs-downstairs conundrum. In Polly Stenham’s upda...
Review: Red, Wyndam’s Theatre
It’s 1958 New York, and the artist Mark Rothko is painting his Seagram Murals. The series of paintings, which can still be seen at the Tate Modern in London, ha...
Charlotte Irwin
Charlotte has just completed an MA in Magazine Journalism at City, University of London. She now freelances, specialising in arts and culture. When she's not writing she likes to escape London and discover other cultures.