5.0
Review: Adventures With The Painted People, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Roman and Pictish. Witchcraft and Engineering. Civilisation and Savagery. David Greig’s Adventures with the Painted People is a jigsaw of opposites and the per...
Brian Friel
5.0
5.0
Review: Afterplay, The Coronet Theatre
Brian Friel’s Afterplay feels very much like a near cousin of a Chekhov play, tied closely to the settings and themes that we are so familiar with, from plays ...
5.0
Review: Translations, National Theatre
It feels a little bit silly to be writing a review of Translations after its sold-out run last year. Tickets sold like hot cakes, and now, due to what I can on...
Review: Faith Healer, Donmar Warehouse
My granny always told me to be wary when couples tell stories about each other. She said ‘There’ll be two sides of the story and somewhere in the middle there’l...
Review: Dancing at Lughnasa, Gaiety Theatre
With the late Brien Friel arguably being one of the best playwrights of the last half century, expectations for any production of his work are always going to b...
Review: A Month In The Country, Gate Theatre
It’s clear early in the Gate’s new production that a band of Russian aristocrats’ card-playing and watercolour painting won’t relieve the terminally bored Natal...