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Review: Hamlet: Rotten States, The Hope Theatre
Christmas has been and gone and I thought the same could be said for panto season. Yet, tonight I discover that my aforementioned presumption may not be true -...
tragedy
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Review: Antigone, New Diorama Theatre
Antigone isn’t short of drama - war, sibling rivalry, and murder. Yet, sat here tonight, I am baffled as to why this classic tragedy is being played out like a...
Review: Electra, Bunker Theatre
DumbWise does not quite live up to their big claim that they have “reinvented” the gory myth of the house of Atreus with their Electra; unfortunately, there isn...
Review: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s Globe
A black cloth, torn and irregular, is suspended over the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe – reminiscent of a foreboding spider’s web. From the very beginning, this ...
Review: Salome, Hoxton Hall
The show opens in the 1930s on King Herod’s birthday banquet. “Decadence...beauty...lust...envy...desire. The words of a prophet, a mother’s envy, a stepfath...
Review: Duchess of Malfi, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
What an exciting experience it is to bear witness to the first production housed in the new, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, which op...