Measure for Measure (Susan Elkin reviews)
Cygnet Theatre, Rosemary Branch. Measure for Measure is a strange play but I used to teach it to A level students and...
Cygnet Theatre, Rosemary Branch. Measure for Measure is a strange play but I used to teach it to A level students and...
The stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s What the Ladyird Heard has benefited from a great deal of development work since its first...
So what makes a good musical? Whatever it is, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Matador and Lord of the Rings didn’t have it....
If you go a-burgling in your stripy top with your swag bag you will get caught and sent to prison. That’s the...
This is a very funny show. After all, the British really are ridiculous and one of our great national strengths is the...
I’m struck, not for the first time, by how well Hamlet works midsummer in the open air. It gives you the gravediggers...
The quality of performance and the imaginative direction and other hard work which has gone into this production are, I’m afraid, in...
Edna O’Brien’s own dramatisation of her iconic, cat-among-the-pigeons 1960 novel is good in parts but, sadly, the converse is also true. It...