Review: Obsession, Barbican Centre
Omnipresent in London this season, Ivo van Hove has emerged as one of contemporary western theatre’s most divisive figures. I found his recent Hedda Gabler at t...
Jude Law
Review: Closer, Donmar Warehouse
Oh simplicity how I adore thee. Even before the cast of Patrick Marber’s Closer arrive on stage, I am slapped in the face with the excitable foresight of what i...
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: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I’ve never really been all that enthralled by Shakespeare’s comedies. Give me a meaty King Lear or Macbeth any day, dripping with blood and venom, than the li...
Review: Anna Christie
Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie is the story of a girl with a past. After reconciling with her old sailor father after 15 years, she falls in love with a man...
Review: Hamlet
Hamlet: A Review
A Little Less of Star, and a Bit More of Subtlety
It would seem quite fitting for the first article to be published here to be on a play wh...