Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

January 7, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Bella Vista Farm, December 22 7.5/10 All the comedic pieces are in place, from skipping lightness to ribaldry, and there’s enchantment here galore: a keen sense of the play as a game, thanks to using teenaged actors to play teens. In fact Damien Ryan’s Sport for Jove production better serves…

December 20, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old 505 Theatre, December 5 4.5/10 At her best playwright Sarah Hamilton suspends time and place, so the two characters float in her play just as the little boat they occupy does in the water. Aided by Kobe Donaldson’s projections of sea and sky and the subliminal shimmer of Max…

December 15, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, November 30 9/10 When Jonathan Biggins’ decrepit Krapp grieves for a lost love at the play’s end, it tears at your chest like claws. For this monumental sadness to work, the character must be firmly established as too filled of self-loathing to wallow in self-pity, the miracle…