5.0
Review: A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic
For the third year running, Jack Thorne’s magical adaptation of the world’s favourite Christmas story is on at the Old Vic, again spreading festive cheer and D...
Simon Baker
5.0
5.0
Review: Present Laughter, The Old Vic
Embarrassingly, I had never seen a production of a Noël Coward play before Present Laughter. I had of course read some of his work, and heard of his undeniable...
Review: A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic
“Christmas time is a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of when men and women open their shut-up hearts freely, and t...
Review: The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter Theatre
Director Ian Rickson brings Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party to the stage, with a gaze that penetrates below the skin. First staged in 1957, Pinter’s play was...
Review: Tristan and Yseult, Shakespeare’s Globe
This is Heartbreak Hotel filled with ‘The Unloved’ in hoodies. This channels Monty Python, but without making fun of the French. This is a fusion of Renaissance...
Review: Rebecca, Richmond Theatre
Kneehigh's dream of Manderley is fused deep with its Cornish roots, singing of the sea and haunted by a surreal shipwreck which buries Rebecca's boat deep in th...