Let there be light: Hannah Greenstreet reviews Alistair McDowall’s dazzling new play.
West End & Central
6 September 2021
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
25 August - 9 October
By Hannah Greenstreet
Ripples from the past: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Winsome Pinnock’s epic new play exploring the legacies of Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
15 August 2021
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Paradise at National Theatre
By Hannah Greenstreet
A festering wound: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Kae Tempest’s ‘savagely poetic’ adaptation of Philoctetes by Sophocles.
18 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Seven Streams of the River Ota at National Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A starting gun: Ava Wong Davies on Robert LePage’s epic but flattening narrative of suffering and resilience.
12 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Shoe Lady at the Royal Court
4th March - 21st March
By Hannah Greenstreet
‘An odyssey in miniature’: Hannah Greenstreet writes on E.V. Crowe’s new play about a woman whose life spirals out of control when she loses a shoe.
27 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Prince of Egypt at Dominion Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach gets swept up in the Biblical storytelling and daffy design choices of an epic new West End musical.
17 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Visit at National Theatre
By Rosemary Waugh
Elegantly wasted: Rosemary Waugh writes on Tony Kushner’s elaborate, infuriating rewrite of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play.
13 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Nora at the Young Vic
By Hannah Greenstreet
Nora, in triplicate: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the historical and economic themes of Stef Smith’s reimagined ‘A Doll’s House’.
8 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Endgame at Old Vic
By Sally Hales
“Existential crisis averted, for now”: Sally Hales writes on the welcome humour of Richard Jones’s take on Beckett.
1 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Sugar Syndrome at Orange Tree Theatre
24th January - 22nd February
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A sugary surface with an achingly bitter aftertaste’: Ava Wong Davies writes on Oscar Toeman’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s play about chatrooms and an unlikely friendship.
27 January 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Fairview at Young Vic
By Naomi Obeng
As Fairview’s UK run ends, Naomi Obeng charts her conflicting reactions to Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play. [contains spoilers]
27 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: My Brilliant Friend at National Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
An incoherent world: Hailey Bachrach writes on an episodic staging of Elena Ferrante’s wildly successful bestsellers.
26 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: & Juliet at Shaftesbury Theatre
By Alice Saville and Rose Johnstone
Living in a teenage dream: in this dialogue review, Rose Johnstone and Alice Saville chat about 90s nostalgia, commercialised wokeness, and the weird world of the 21st century jukebox musical.
26 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Bridge Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A glorious vision: Ava Wong Davies writes on the wintry magic of Sally Cookson’s Narnia story.
23 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Henry IV/ Richard III at the Globe
23rd November - 26th January
By Lily Levinson
‘Shakespearean civil war as Tarantino-esque entertainment’: Lily Levinson writes on Sean Holmes and Ilinca Radulian’s action-packed double-bill of history plays.