Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

November 8, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, October 26 8.5/10 You know that feeling when you’re standing on a cliff, and are drawn inexorably a little closer to the edge, and then a little more, and then… This play is like that. It’s all edge, no safety-net. Daring and a touch dangerous, its sense of…

November 3, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Playhouse, October 24 4.5/10 Here was a curiosity: a show disarmingly similar to William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The words were identical, and arrived in more or less the same order. Moreover it, too, was a comedy, generating several smiles and one really good laugh, and so it…

November 1, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, October 23 7.5/10 Sometimes just as you think you’ve failed to light a fire, it suddenly flares up. This production is like that. It flickers and hisses and fizzes for a while, and then the key kindling, desire and arousal, catch alight, and the play begins to burn.…