Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

March 5, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

New Theatre, February 13 8/10 At first it seems unnecessary; an irritant even. Just because Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play is skilfully structured to jump between eras in protagonist Alan Turing’s life, do we really need three actors playing Turing and two playing his mother? Does director Anthony Skuse not believe…

February 28, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

PACT Theatre, February 10 6.5/10 If you’re younger than two, you won’t remember that, once upon a time, enough plans actually came to fruition to encourage one to keep making more. Now most plans sink without a trace, but there can be a plus-side. At the exact moment that COVID…

February 22, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

What was going on? A near empty Drama Theatre for the opening of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Here was a play that, like Death of a Salesman and Waiting for Godot, sent a shock-wave through 20th-century theatre, yet was the only show I saw in January that was not…