Review: A Christmas Carol, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
David Edgar’s new adaptation of Dickens’ classic 1843 novella returns to the RSC for the second year running with a new cast, after achieving critical and comme...
Max Thomas
Review: Troilus and Cressida, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre
With first editions dating to 1609 (incidentally the year of the publication of his sonnets), Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s later plays. It takes...
Review: Maydays, The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Maydays blitzes through more than 30 years of political revolutions, turmoil, demonstrations and dissent. Moving from the Fall of Berlin in the spring of 1945 t...
Review: Tartuffe, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
In this modern reimagining, Tartuffe (Asif Khan) is a con man who swindles a Brummie-Pakistani family out of their house and savings. Assuming the piety of ‘an ...
Max Thomas
Max is a student, writer and actor based in Cheltenham, whose most recent project, an adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-four, achieved critical and commercial acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe. Favourite authors include Orwell, Steinbeck, Hitchens, Eliot and Rushdie. On the rare occasions he is uninjured, Max enjoys playing rugby. He also once met Stephen Fry.