Despicable acts: Rosemary Waugh reviews Shostakovich’s opera, based on the same short story that inspired William Oldroyd and Alice Birch’s recent film.
Rosemary Waugh
Articles by Rosemary Waugh
15 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court
7 Apr - 19 May 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
If Amazon Prime delivered families: Rosemary Waugh reviews Thomas Eccleshare’s new play about humanoids and parenting.
2 April 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews
Review: Free Falling by Hagit Yakira
28 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Don’t panic: Rosemary Waugh reviews Free Falling, a double bill of dance works by Hagit Yakira
14 March 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Foreign Body at Vault Festival 2018
7 - 11 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Mirrors and warriors: Rosemary Waugh reviews Imogen Butler-Cole’s work about sexual violence and healing
8 March 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Macbeth at the National Theatre
26 February - 12 May 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Shopping bags and parcel tape: Rosemary Waugh reviews Rufus Norris’s after-the-war Shakespeare.
7 March 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Fanny & Alexander at the Old Vic Theatre
21 February - 14 April 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Farewell, puritanism: Rosemary Waugh reviews the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s famous film.
5 March 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Körper at Sadler’s Wells
1 - 3 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Bodies for sale: Rosemary Waugh reviews Sasha Waltz & Guests’ human-focused dance work
26 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Ad Libido at Vault Festival 2018
21 - 25 February 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Come for the fringe theatre, stay for the free lube: Rosemary Waugh reviews Fran Bushe’s show about Female Sexual Dysfunction
21 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Juliet and Romeo at the Battersea Arts Centre
14 - 24 February, and then until 3 March at The Place
By Rosemary Waugh
The aches and pains of long-term love: Rosemary Waugh reviews Lost Dog’s new show about Shakespeare’s lovers all grown up.
17 February 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Girls & Boys at the Royal Court
8 February - 17 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Feeling blue: Rosemary Waugh reviews the premiere of Dennis Kelly’s one-woman play.
14 February 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The York Realist at the Donmar Warehouse
8 February - 24 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Love and land: Rosemary Waugh reviews Peter Gill’s painfully realistic picture of a relationship
13 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Pluto at the Barbican
8 - 11 February 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
A discombobulatingly epic bit of stage design: Rosemary Waugh reviews the theatre version of Astro Boy
12 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: NOW18: Week 4 at The Yard
6 - 10 February 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Sexting with James Joyce: Rosemary Waugh reviews My Kind of Michael and Your Sexts Are Shit, as part of NOW18.
8 February 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Gundog at the Royal Court
Until 10 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Rosemary Waugh reviews the premiere of Simon Longman’s brutal, bloody and foreboding rural play.
6 February 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: How To Be A Kid at the Orange Tree Theatre
25 January - 3 March 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Bursting bubbles: Rosemary Waugh reviews Sarah McDonald-Hughes’ play about growing up fast