REVIEW: PETER PAN (National Theatre) ★★★★
After a sell out run at the Bristol Old Vic, Sally Cookson bring her version of PETER PAN to the National Theatre this Christmas. This isn’t a pantomime, there are no pop songs or clipboard holding celebrities, but a serious retelling of this much loved JM Barrie childrens classic. In return for helping him find […]
Cast announced for the UK&I tour of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
The National Theatre have announced the cast for its forthcoming 25 city tour of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which begins at the Lowry in Salford on 21 January 2017 and continues its journey to Aylesbury, Edinburgh, Leeds, Canterbury, Bath, Southampton, Nottingham, Belfast, Dublin, […]
REVIEW: AMADEUS (National Theatre) ★★★★
Before the curtain rose for Michael Longhurst’s main stage debut at the National Theatre, Rufus Norris and Nicholas Hytner paid tribute to the late Howard Davies, one of the great theatre directors of his generation, who will be sorely missed. Davies’ long association with the National Theatre spanned 28 years and 36 productions, beginning with […]
REVIEW: A PACIFIST’S GUIDE TO WAR ON CANCER (National Theatre) ★★★★★
How would you even start to put the horrific experience of cancer into a performance? It shouldn’t work. Nothing about a musical comedy about cancer should work… But this does. Bryony Kimmings’ ground breaking roller-coaster follows the story of single mother Emma, (Amanda Hadingue), as she experiences a hospital cancer unit for the first time, […]
REVIEW: THE RED BARN (National Theatre) ★★★★
On a winter’s night in 1960s Connecticut, a man disappears into a snowstorm. The man is Ray Sanders (Nigel Whitmey), husband of the impossibly glamorous Mona (Elizabeth Debicki) and best friend of Donald Dodd (Mark Strong). Mona, Donald and his wife Ingrid (Hope Davis) are snowed in at their comfortable Lakeville home and must wait […]
Tour dates announced for WAR HORSE UK Tour from September 2017
The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse, today confirmed new dates for its tour of the UK, which begins in a year’s time, on 15 September 2017 in Canterbury. Tour dates already announced are: Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (15 September – 14 October 2017), Bristol Hippodrome (18 October – 11 November 2017), the Empire Theatre, […]
REVIEW: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR (National Theatre) ★★★★
With the Edinburgh Fringe Festival just getting into the swing of things, it becomes a poignant moment for the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour knowing that this time last year was the world premiere of their production at the intimate Traverse Theatre. One year on, they now make their debut at the National […]
REVIEW: Young Chekhov Trilogy (National Theatre) ★★★★★
The Young Chekhov is a trilogy of Anton Chekhov’s earliest plays, comprising Platonov (1880) which was written when he was only twenty years old, Ivanov (1887) and The Seagull (1896), performed at the Olivier Theatre on London’s Southbank. These plays are new versions, adapted by the brilliant David Hare, which were originally performed at the […]
REVIEW: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (National Theatre, Lyttleton) ★★★
A legendary piece from a legendary writer, The Plough and the Stars is the third in the writer’s ‘Dublin trilogy and perhaps the bleakest, the play unwinds around a fractured Dublin beginning in November 1915 as people look towards a liberated Ireland culminating in the tragedies of the Easter risings of 1916, and the movement […]
REVIEW: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★★
On 20 June 2016, the West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time welcomed a new cast and as a fan of the play I thought I would go along and check them out. Based on the 2003 book by Mark Haddon, The National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of […]