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Antigone (2nd October 2017, The SandPit Theatre)
Adapting an Ancient Greek text for a contemporary audience is never easy. However, Actors of Dionysus' crisp new production cleverly...


Yerma (31st August 2017, Young Vic Theatre via NT Live)
Yerma is a true wonder to behold. Lorca's play from 1934 is brought crashing into present day, its central story as painful as ever. We...


Salomé (10th August 2017, The Swan Theatre)
I was enthralled to see the production billed as 'gender fluid', as Oscar Wilde's provocative, comedic and challenging play was the ideal...


The Treatment (31st May 2017, Almeida Theatre)
As Rupert Goold notes, Crimp's play has become even more relevant in its twenty four years than one could expect. The Treatment follows...


Nuclear War (22nd April 2017, Royal Court Theatre)
Simon Stephens' newest work is his first experiment into contemporary dance - and I desperately wish it had gone further into this...


Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Old Vic, 20th April 2017 - NTLive)
This is only the second time I have watched an NTLive screening, and this was the perfect production for screening. Much of the humour...


Twelfth Night (National Theatre, 4th April 2017)
This really is a luxurious affair. As I spend much of my theatre-going time at relatively small scale productions, I almost forget the...


Splendour (Maltings Arts Theatre, 23rd March 2017)
Abi Morgan's Splendour is an incredibly relevant character study, offering fragments of four women's life up to the lens of scrutiny: by...


Seawall/T5 (Maltings Arts Theatre, 10th March 2017)
I adore Simon Stephens' storytelling. His ability to draw you in, navigating the anguish that these two characters inhabit, is...


The Machine Stops (Letchworth Broadway Theatre, 22nd February 2017)
What draws us to prophetic stories that foresaw our current society and the possibilities it offers? Perhaps instilling fear in ourselves...
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