1984 (Susan Elkin reviews)
28 June 2016, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5DE “Well Bugsy Malone it certainly isn’t” commented the woman behind me with...
28 June 2016, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5DE “Well Bugsy Malone it certainly isn’t” commented the woman behind me with...
Taiko style rhythmic drumming, dazzling lights and line fighting in silhouette make for battle scenes as effective as I’ve ever seen them...
Ralph Fiennes gives us a slightly twisted mouth as well as body, “I can smile and murder while I smile” has rarely...
This is one of those shows which makes you beam with delight until your face hurts. From the moment Tony Higgins’s fabulous...
Listening is the key to good acting. The best actors listen to each other and respond with convincing spontaneity and truth. It...
It’s an opera, as George Ikediashi reminds us at the beginning and the end in his spectacularly deep speaking and singing voice....
It is Helen McCrory’s evening. Hardly off stage in two and a half hours, she is whey-faced and brittle as Hester Collyer,...
Adapted by Helen Edmundson from Jamila Gavin’s young adult novel for the National Theatre in 2005, this large-scale ensemble piece is a...