Edinburgh Review: Blind Hamlet, Assembly Roxy
Nassim Soleimanpour, or at least the voice coming from the dictaphone claiming to be him, is going blind. He seems calm about it. His play is an attempt to make...
Hamlet
Review: Midsummer Mischief, Programme B
Programme B, comprising new work by E.V. Crowe and Abi Zakarian, offers the final two plays which make up the Midsummer Mischief’s radical set of new work. With...
Blog: An actor writes – The periodic meltdown
So it’s been two months since you’ve had an audition. So long since you did any meaningful acting work that your facial muscles are beginning to seize up and yo...
Review: Hamlet, Les Gémeaux, Paris
David Bobee's Russian Hamlet is, among other things, a strong argument for age-appropriate casting. While in Britain we like our Princes of Denmark to be 'acc...
Review: Hamlet, New Diorama Theatre
Sitting in the audience with a large school group for a production of Hamlet is always a trying experience. However, artistic pretensions aside, their reactio...
Review: The Trilogy, Chelsea Theatre
A beginning, a middle and an end are the three structural components of any story, or so we’re taught at an early age. Michael Pinchbeck’s triptych of work,...