Review: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Embassy Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht is a play chronicling the fall and restoration of society. A web of interwoven narratives examines the effects on t...
Bertolt Brecht
Review: Mother Courage and Her Children, Southwark Playhouse
How does war sound? How does it feel to breath the life-threatening air? Dim light, a grey shaded set design (Barney Georg), aircraft noises and soldiers we...
Review: The Life of Galileo, Young Vic
The Young Vic’s versatile main space has been transformed yet again; this time we are sitting under designer Lizzie Clachan’s huge white disk, a canvas for proj...
Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse
This adaptation by Bruce Norris of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is political satire at it's absolute best. The piece takes place in Chicago...
Review: The Threepenny Opera, National Theatre
Bertolt Brecht: hated by students who don’t understand him, loved by the rest of us who still don’t really understand him. The Threepenny Opera is perhaps his m...
Review: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Opera House
News of funding cuts for some of the UK's most iconic arts institutions last summer, most notably the English National Opera, may have spurred creatives to thin...