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21 May 2018

Reviews • Dance • Dublin • National • Reviews

Review: Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer at Dublin Dance Festival

May 18 - May 19

By Chris McCormack

An expression of thanks: choreographer Oona Doherty crafts a religious reflection on her home town.

21 May 2018

Reviews • West End & Central

Review: Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) at the Barbican

15 - 19 May 2018

By Brendan Macdonald

‘This is a show, and we are living through it together’: Brendan Macdonald reviews Split Britches’s Kubrick-inspired performance.

21 May 2018

Reviews • West End & Central

Review: As You Like It and Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe

Until 26 August 2018

By Rosemary Waugh

Shakespeare’s stories: Rosemary Waugh reviews the first productions by the new Globe Ensemble.

21 May 2018

Reviews • National

Review: The Killers at Mayfest 2018

By Lilith Wozniak

‘It’s the kind of weird theatre show that I want to bring all of my non-theatre friends to see’: Lilith Wozniak reviews Richard Allen’s show as part of Mayfest 2018.

21 May 2018

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Elizabeth at Barbican

16 - 19 May 2018

By Amelia Forsbrook

‘Bed-ridden with everything except a husband’: Amelia Forsbrook reviews the ROH’s ballet about the last Tudor on the throne.

21 May 2018

Reviews • Edinburgh

Review: Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Until 19 May 2018

By David Pollock

‘The air of stifling, claustrophobic routine’: David Pollock reviews Martin McCormick’s absurdist play

20 May 2018

Reviews • Bristol

Review: The Nature of Why at Mayfest 2018

By Rosemary Waugh

Rosemary Waugh reviews the British Paraorchestra’s new work inspired by the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, as part of Bristol’s Mayfest

18 May 2018

Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central

Review: Red at Wyndham’s Theatre

May 4 - May 28

By J.N. Benjamin

Apollo and Dionysus: Alfred Molina is exceptional as Mark Rothko in the London return of John Logan’s two-hander.

18 May 2018

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Review: Effigies of Wickedness at Gate Theatre

3 May - 9 June 2018

By Maddy Costa

A celebration of the power of music to hold and communicate human history: Maddy Costa reviews a cabaret of songs banned by the Nazis.

17 May 2018

Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews

Review: Isaac Came Home From The Mountain at Theatre503

May 16 - June 2

By Nabilah Said

A man’s world: Phil Ormrod’s four-handed drama explores father-son relationships and male violence.

16 May 2018

Reviews • Germany • Reviews

Review: Trommeln in der Nacht at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin

May 10 - May 11

By Lee Anderson

Theatre as controlled demolition: Christopher Rüping’s dissection of Brecht is thrilling, smart and savage.

15 May 2018

Reviews • Reviews

Review: Choral Cuisine at Mayfest 2018

12 May 2018

By Maddy Costa

Maddy Costa writes on getting exercised about theatre criticism and ideas of treating the audience as consumer, spun through a review of Choral Cuisine at Bristol’s Mayfest.