KING LEAR at Bath Theatre Royal
King Lear is, along with Hamlet, a sort of gauge of an actor’s skill. They are the parts by which...
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THE PITMEN PAINTERS at the Oxford Playhouse
Art about the power of art has to deal with the tricky task of being inspiring without being overly worthy; of conveying a higher feeling without being pompous or patronising. Writer Lee Hall has done it before with Billy...
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THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF at the Bristol Old Vic
Aesop’s Fables have been around for ever, almost literally. As though to establish that nothing...
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Kneehigh’s TRISTAN AND YSEULT at the Bristol Old Vic
The mark of great drama is often its ability to use humour. The juxtaposing of comedy and tragedy...
Read MoreTHE LAST DAYS OF MANKIND at the Bristol Old Vic
“The performances by the young actors were excellent and consistent, bearing in mind the hundreds of characters they were asked to portray…It would have been an ambitious undertaking for the National or the RSC to mount The Last Days of Mankind. For a drama school, albeit with the co-operation of a major theatre, to present such an accomplished, original and successful production is a real achievement.”
Read MoreDANCING AT LUGHNASA Oxford Playhouse
The set of Royal & Derngate Northampton’s DANCING AT LUGHNASA transports the audience to another world. Birds chirp offstage, and a realistic approximation of evening sunlight bathes the set which is at once indoors and...
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