Review: Chekhov’s First Play, Battersea Arts Centre
Chekhov’s First Play is a reimagining of a Shakespeare play, but with an entirely different goal! As the lights go down in the auditorium, we put on headphon...
Andrew Bennett
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Abbey Theatre
The course of Shakespeare’s comedy at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, never did run smooth. “A Midsummer’s Abbey Nightmare” ran the headline of o...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Embers
A beach. A skull. A voice. Pan Pan Theatre's take on Samuel Beckett's 1959 radio play Embers is no easy experience. The piece focuses on Henry (Andrew Bennett...