“Life is short and unkind and we return to dust”: Verity Healey reviews Paul Hewitt’s take on the The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam.
Verity Healey
Articles by Verity Healey
3 May 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Schism at Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre ⋄ 27th April -14th May 2016
By Verity Healey
Promised kingdoms: Verity Healey reviews Athena Stevens’ work at the Finborough Theatre.
21 April 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: My Mother Said I Never Should at St James Theatre
St James Theatre ⋄ 13th April - 21st May 2016
By Verity Healey
“Let’s kill our mummies”: Verity Healey reviews Charlotte Keatley’s work about four generations of women.
18 April 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Deathwatch at the Print Room
Until 7th May 2016
By Verity Healey
“A beautiful sequence of events”: Verity Healey reviews David Rudkin’s translation of Jean Genet.
21 March 2016
Features
Jim Cartwright: “You really have to put yourself on the edge to have a good time.”
By Verity Healey
The playwright of ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice’ and ‘Raz’, which opens this week at Trafalgar Studios, talks jilted generations, the poetry of Northernisms and wild nights out.
18 March 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me at the Young Vic
Young Vic ⋄ 10th March - 16th April 2016
By Verity Healey
Verity Healey reviews Jane Horrocks’ “archeological exercise” at the Young Vic.
20 January 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
In/Out (A Feeling)
Hope Theatre ⋄ 12th - 30th January 2016
By Verity Healey
Verity Healey reviews Andrew Maddock’s latest play in which “the writing is rich with alliteration and a joy to hear, never mind see.”
4 December 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Barbarians
Young Vic ⋄ 1st - 19th December 2015
By Verity Healey
Revisiting Barrie Keeffe’s still-relevant play.
29 November 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Here We Go
National Theatre ⋄ 25th November - 19th December 2015
By Verity Healey
A biblical storm.
11 November 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Time of Women
Young Vic ⋄ 9th - 10th November 2015
By Verity Healey
A meditative celebration of female power.
9 November 2015
Reviews • Performance
Discover Love
Secret location ⋄ 6th November 2015
By Verity Healey
A tribute to the disappeared.
9 November 2015
Reviews • Performance
Zone of Silence
Secret location ⋄ 7th November 2015
By Verity Healey
Towards the light.
7 November 2015
Reviews • Performance
Generation Jeans
Car park underneath the Houses of Parliament ⋄ 5th November 2015
By Verity Healey
Hope, freedom and 501s.
5 November 2015
Reviews • Performance
New York ’79 / Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker
Vauxhall Tavern ⋄ 4th November 2015
By Verity Healey
Sexual revolutions.
4 November 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
4.48 Psychosis
Clerkenwell House of Detention ⋄ 2nd November 2015
By Verity Healey
Ecstatic pain.