Review: Hamlet, Les Gémeaux, Paris
David Bobee's Russian Hamlet is, among other things, a strong argument for age-appropriate casting. While in Britain we like our Princes of Denmark to be 'acc...
International
Review: The Raven, Bouffes du Nord
Bouffes du Nord's The Raven is like a bad acid trip in suburbia. A sky-blue flat with a window onto a residential street sits in the theatre's crumbling pro...
New York Review: The Old Friends, Signature Theatre
Nestled in a Texan home that’s torn between the glamorous rebellion of 60s America and the conservative traditionalists of the previous generation, we find th...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: First Love
The plot of Samuel Beckett's 1946 novella, First Love, is so very plausible that, if given only the synopsis, you'd be forgiven for thinking the work had been...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The bard enters the battle of the bands in The Tragedy of Coriolanus, an international adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic text with a unique musical accompan...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Je ne sais quoi
(2/5 stars) What might now be called 'cabaret' was a very different experience in 1890s France. Forget raunchy repartee, damaged divas and any trace of glit...