Review: The Dishonoured, Arcola Theatre
Political thrillers on stage are seldom seen. You get your average locked room drama, but throw politics in there and we’re usually talking BBC miniseries. In o...
Rob Ellis
Review: Rapunzel, Greenwich Theatre
It’s nearly March and we’re still getting panto. Well, sort of panto – more like the cold, corporate, Disney-fied product that is children’s theatre. Pick a fai...
Review: Animal Farm, The Courtyard Theatre
George Orwell’s seminal 1945 novel Animal Farm is not the easiest text to dramatise - it’s crammed with metaphors, ideologies and satire that only Orwell himsel...
Review: Dress Rehearsal, OSO Community Arts Centre
The word Opera might go hand in hand with Grandiose. It’s lavish, it’s colossal, the magnitude of the production design matched only by the level of drama onsta...
Review: The Life We Lived, Theatre N16
There’s a great scene in the 2009 rom-com (500) Days of Summer where Joseph Gordon-Levitt goes to a party, hoping to reconcile with his ex-girlfriend. The encou...
Review: In Tents and Purposes, Lyric Hammersmith
Have you ever wanted to go back in time and do things differently? Change your fortunes for the better? That’s the question posed to us by Viscera Theatre in th...
Rob Ellis
Rob is a Director/Writer living in North London. He has an MA in Theatre Directing from UEA, is AD of Relish Theatre and AAD of Tower Theatre Company. He also produces the podcast 'Theatre Feuds.' He loves all aspects of theatre, but mostly the watching part.