Review: King Lear, Duke of York’s Theatre
Will I ever see another play ever again that doesn’t have a slight whiff of Donald Trump about it? Doubtful. To be fair to King Lear, first performed back in 16...
King Lear
Review: Curtain Call, White Bear Theatre
Simon Bradbury’s Curtain Call is a clumsy comedy about love, alcoholism, fear, stubbornness and reconciliation. It follows the diatribes and demi-dramas of thre...
Review: King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe
Written in 1606, King Lear is Shakespeare’s classic tale of the titular mad monarch. George Bernard Shaw wrote of the play ‘No man will ever write a better trag...
Review: King Lear, The Rose Playhouse
At a running time of just 90 minutes, director Benjamin Blyth’s production of Shakespeare’s King Lear does an impressive job of staging a play that usually runs...
Review: King Lear, Peckham Asylum
It is unusual to see King Lear and leave feeling that it is a play for the zone two roles. But that is exactly how I felt after seeing The Malachites’ productio...
Book review: The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
Although it’s a cliche, there’s a lot of truth to the old adage that, as Stephen Unwin says in his new book, “Brecht is often sloppily taught”. Many teachers of...