Theatre Reviews & More

Bard in the Botanics Bring out this Play’s Strengths, but Cannot Overcome Its Weaknesses Sometimes a subplot is more interesting and...

Why go to Glastonbury or Pride when you can go to Jennifer Dick’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? If you wanted to spend last weekend surrounded

An Exercise in Intensity Starring Nicole Cooper At first, we hear angry shrieks in the distance, whispers about a woman who doesn’t fit in,

Do you ever take a nap in the middle of the afternoon without setting an alarm? You don’t know when you will wake up, you don’t know what...

Like being stranded on Prospero’s island, watching a performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest can feel like being wrapped up in a strange...

There’s something rather paradoxical about The Winter’s Tale being performed in the summer. In this adaptation, the stage is draped in...

Be warned, this is a dangerous show. It involves no pyrotechnics. It has no elaborate stunts. It doesn’t even feature wild animals. No,...

The new, temporary Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre is reminiscent of a water park. It feels as though we are about to witness some...

It’s funny to think that open-air performances have once again become the main way to see in-person theatre in Britain. The “default”...

This year there are (at least) five productions of Romeo and Juliet at the fringe. When a show is trying to trying to add a little more...