Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Extinction Event, Pleasance Courtyard
★★★★★ I have always believed theatre to be a form of magic and magic shows to be a form of theatre. The Extinction Event, a piece by SEDA and Glynis Henderso...
Simon Evans
Review: Killer Joe, Trafalgar Studios
It’s been a good few years for Tracy Letts. He’s won a Tony award for his role as George in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, enjoyed success as a...
Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse
This adaptation by Bruce Norris of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is political satire at it's absolute best. The piece takes place in Chicago...
Review: Fool for Love, Found111
One of the reasons we go to the theatre is to see creatives try new ways of doing things; to witness innovation through experimentation. Setting Sam Shepard’s F...
Review: Bug, Found111
The pop-up theatre Found111 stages the intimate staging of Simon Evans’s revival of Bug – Tracy Letts’s take on the rise of technology and conspiracy theories, ...
Review: Almost Maine, Park Theatre
In the playwright’s notes, John Cariani expresses this sentiment under the heading ‘On time’: "The plot of each scene in Almost Maine climaxes with some sort of...