5.0
Review: Present Laughter, The Old Vic
Embarrassingly, I had never seen a production of a Noël Coward play before Present Laughter. I had of course read some of his work, and heard of his undeniable...
Indira Varma
5.0
Review: Exit the King, National Theatre
“An attempt at an apprenticeship in dying” That is Eugène Ionesco’s ambition when he writes his most classical play Exit The King in 1962. Being part of the ...
Review: The Treatment, Almeida Theatre
Martin Crimp’s The Treatment is so current that I struggle to believe it was written over twenty years ago. Set in New York, we follow the lives of individuals ...
Review: Tiger Country, Hampstead Theatre
Even in the three years since Nina Raine’s Tiger Country was last staged at the Hampstead Theatre, the rate at which the NHS is being sliced into privately-owne...
Review: The Hothouse
Every so often, perhaps once in a generation, an actor can seem to have been born to play a role. Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III, for instance. In The Ho...
Review: Hysteria
At the clowning climax of The School for Scandal, the first production of Bath Theatre Royal’s summer season, a devious aristocrat feverishly skits around the...