Review: By the Bog of Cats, Abbey Theatre
It’s time someone re-discovered the half-sunken caravan of Hester Swaine, the Traveller woman at the wild heart of Marina Carr’s play from 1998. On first look, ...
Euripides
Review: Bakkhai, Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre has devoted its current season to an explosive collection of Greek plays and talks, a re-invented examination of what essentially gave birth to ...
Review: Hippolytus, The Hope Theatre
A black box room is the first thing you see when you enter The Hope Theatre. Watching Hippolytus, the second thing you see is actor Ben Scheck. Scheck, who play...
Review: Bacchae, Bloomsbury Theatre
UCL’s Classical Drama Society takes on Euripides’s final tragedy in this brilliant and lurid rendering of Bacchae. The Bloomsbury Theatre, with its intense low ...
Review: Medea, Riverside Studios
The ancient story of the wildest and most passionate woman in theatre is a hard one to produce – how does an actress justify Medea’s revenge on Jason by killi...