Review: Pity, Royal Court Theatre
Imagine all the bad, unlucky and disastrous things that could ever possible happen. Let them all happen one after the other, make it bonkers, and then you have ...
Rory Mullarkey
Review: Coraline, Barbican
Coraline fast became a cult classic when Neil Gaiman’s children’s novella was first published in 2002. There has since been the award-winning stop-motion film a...
Review: Saint George and the Dragon, National Theatre
Saint George and the Dragon is a remimagining of Evgeny Schwartz' 'The Dragon', an allegory of Stalinism, by playwright Rory Mullarkey, centred on England. The ...
Review: The Oresteia, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Aeschylus's The Oresteia is in high demand at the moment, with new versions sprouting up left, right and centre, and The Globe houses The Oresteia in its most a...
Feature: Elizabeth Freestone – “Rural and urban theatre works both ways”
Image by Richard Stanton When I get through to Elizabeth Freestone on a patchy line she’s not quite certain where exactly she is: “I’m currently at Darwen Li...
Review: The Wolf From The Door, Royal Court Theatre
There's been some debate recently about realism, reality and realness, prompted by the Almeida's current production of Little Revolution, which constantly sprin...