Review: Napoleon Disrobed, Arcola
On entering the theatre, one is led to worry for a few minutes that one has entered the wrong play: Jeremy Paxman has arrived (wig n all) to conduct the latest ...
Kathryn Hunter
Review: Out of Blixen, The Print Room
After a heatwave of Nordic Noir over the past few years, it makes my Danish heart flutter that the Print Room has decided to celebrate Karen Blixen, one of our ...
Review: The Emperor, Young Vic
In 1974 Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński travelled to Ethiopia to interview the surviving household of the recently deposed emperor Haile Selassie. His por...
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac, Southwark Playhouse
Edmond Rostand’s 1897 comedy may be over a century old, but there is nothing aged about it. The lyrical sparring and mockery throughout made for a fully rousing...
Review: My Perfect Mind, Young Vic
Those artful jokers at Told By An Idiot are entering dangerous ground with My Perfect Mind, a unique retelling of how ultimate thesp Edward Petherbridge suffere...
Review: The Valley of Astonishment, Bouffes du Nord – Paris
“It could do with a drop of paint,” Kathryn Hunter says as she steps out on the Bouffes du Nord stage in Peter Brook's The Valley of Astonishment. Referring t...