Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 30, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, June 29 9/10 Thom Paine is a paradox wrapped in an accident that may happen again while we’re watching. That’s the wonder of US playwright Will Eno’s hour-long one-hander: it stays dangerous even when you know the play; never sheds its unpredictability. You can test that theory,…

July 8, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Montague Basement, June 11 5/10 Our own period of relative lock-down was but a little crack in time compared with poor Hermione’s. She had 16 years to endlessly press replay in her mind; to fret and ponder how she might have swayed her once-loving husband, Leontes, that she’d not fashioned…

LIVE STREAM THEATRE Griffin Theatre Company, April 21 In terms of relevance deprivation right now you can’t sink much lower than a theatre critic. It’s like the National Party without coal: absolutely no raison d’etre (which is French, Barnaby, for a shrivelled grape.) So imagine the sheer ecstasy when Griffin…