4.0
Review: Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre
Despite its immense contemporary popularity, Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserved is a piece that hasn’t appeared on our stages for a number of years. Admittedly, i...
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4.0
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Barbican
The Merry Wives of Windsor gets an Essex makeover complete with a shot of reality TV in Fiona Laird’s adaptation filled with big hair, fake tans and good times....
Review: Macbeth, Barbican Theatre
The RSC’s production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay, takes up its London residency at the Barbican, bringing the famed brutalism of the theatre right ont...
Niamh Cusack: “The Macbeths are flesh and blood, they’re not monsters”
Josephine Balfour Oatts chats to Niamh Cusack in the run up to her role as Lady Macbeth at the Barbican. Expect baby comparisons and much love for Shakespeare. ...
I have been running a feminist theatre for over ten years
Brigid Lamour, Artistic Director or Watford Palace Theatre talks about running a feminist theatre and doing all-female Shakespeare As Artistic Director and C...
Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, About Lady White Fox With Nine Tales, Assembly
★★★ In this production, Lady Macbeth is the reincarnation of a Kumiho, a white nine-tailed fox, who desires to become human. About Lady White Fox With Nin...