David Edgar’s political drama The Shape of the Table, set in an unnamed eastern European country during the collapse of the Soviet Union, first premiered at the National Theatre on November 8th, 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, during one of the most […]
The shortlists have been revealed for the 60th Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The winners will be announced at the London Palladium on 30 November 2014. Nominations for best actor include Tom Hiddleston, Mark Strong, Gillian Anderson and Billie Piper.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers stars Meera Syal and tells the story of the intertwined lives of people living in Mumbai slums. The new play, written by David Hare, is adapted from Katherine Boo’s novel and is directed by the soon-to-be NT artistic director Rufus Norris. Behind the Beautiful […]
Okay, I’ll venir nettoyer : asked to name a French singer, I’m likely to go Edith Piaf…er..er and that will be it. Asked to name a singer in French, however, and I’ll easily get twice as many marks. Oh yes – Jacques Brel: Belgian he might have been, as Belgian as Hergé, waffles and Hercules Poirot, but French was the language for […]
Well that was strange. Of the many ideas to be inspired by the brothers Grimm folk tales down the years, this might just be the strangest. The sight of Deptford at night—specifically its dark and miserable side-streets—doesn’t exactly conjure up the landscape of German fairy-tales, so to say […]
Top 5 Christmas ShowsNumber 1: Mr Tiger Goes Wild at The Chelsea Theatre Adapted from the acclaimed international bestseller by Peter Brown, Mr Tiger Goes Wild is a story about being yourself and features rocking live music, original songs and lots of imagination. Mr. Tiger lived a perfectly […]
Reading is the root problem of this play, or, at least, a lack of careful reading by the wonderfully silly Lydia Languish. Unfortunately for Lydia, she has taken her C18th romance novels to be a truthful representation of love. As a result she will only marry a man […]
Here’s five shows that we recommend seeing this November. Number 1: Action Hero: Hoke’s Bluff at Shoreditch Town Hall The end of the American Dream. Award-winning performance company Action Hero’s present Hoke’s Bluff. It’s a contemporary theatre piece inspired by American teen sports movies, looking at how the […]
Teenage house parties; loud music, cheap booze, angst-ridden love triangles. Who’d have one? Well, Zest Theatre have just finished touring the country with theirs, and they’ve received nothing but praise. The concept is fresh. Recreate the living room space of an average family home and invite the audience […]
A bridge, a woman who is desperate to jump, and an untrained bystander trying to talk her down. It makes for a good set-up, doesn’t it? Well, it was a good set-up, but it just didn’t get much further than that. The playwright, Vinay Patel, tries to show […]
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