3.0
Review: Richard III, Alexandra Palace
For its first play to be staged in 80 years, the Alexandra Palace Theatre houses Shakespeare’s Richard III, a Headlong production directed by John Haidar. ...
Shakespeare
3.0
3.0
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatres
Tobacco Factory modernise this much-loved classic with its
gender bending and dystopian style performance; endeavouring to create a
political edge, whilst main...
3.0
Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The advertisements for this production of As You Like It extend the mysterious invitation to "come into the forest" and to change our "state of mind". When the...
4.0
Review: Jack Lear, Hull Truck Theatre
From the opening scene, Ben Benison’s Jack Lear promises to be mythic. In Lear (Barrie Rutter), we are supposed to find a bewitched trawlerman, motivated by th...
2.5
Review: Twelfth Night, Southwark Playhouse
A hyperactively charged show
that takes Shakespeare into a contemporary setting, this show is a quirky
adaptation of Twelfth Night that
finds the fun in this c...