A beautifully nostalgic painting: Emily Holyoake reflects on Exeter Northcott’s fresh E. Nesbit adaptation and on the theatre’s recent resurrection as a producing house.
National
20 June 2017
Reviews • Cork
Review: Neon Western at Cork Midsummer Festival
16 - 24 June 2017
By Chris McCormack
Rave theatre: Chris McCormack reviews a dystopian western at Cork Midsummer Festival.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Bears at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
14 - 18 June 2017
By Catherine Love
Shifting the conversation from the mind to the gut: Catherine Love reviews Powder Keg’s new show about climate change.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Cork • National • Reviews
Review: Futureproof at Cork Midsummer Festival
By Chris McCormack
Fascinatingly elegiac: Chris McCormack reflects on a revival of Lynda Radley’s 2011 play at Cork Midsummer Festival.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Cork • National • Reviews
Review: Toilers, as reconstructed by Painted Bird at Cork Midsummer Festival
June 15 - June 25
By Chris McCormack
As loaded as its title: Chris McCormack reviews Painted Bird’s Susanne R. Day resurrection job at Cork Midsummer Festival.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Shackleton at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
14-17 June 2017, then touring
By Christine Irvine
Chilling isolation in an untameable wilderness: Christine Irvine reviews Blue Raincoat’s retelling of Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition.
17 June 2017
Reviews • Liverpool
Review: The Conquest of the South Pole at the Everyman, Liverpool
12 - 26 Jun 2017
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier reviews Manfred Karge’s play about “a mass let’s-pretend expedition”.
17 June 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Postscript at Abbey Theatre, Dublin
14 - 24 June 2017
By Chris McCormack
Searching in the dark: Chris McCormack reviews an autobiographical play about a bid to discover the author’s birth parents.
16 June 2017
Reviews • Leeds • National • Reviews
Review: Ode To Leeds at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
June 16 - July 1
By Adam Bruce
A powerful, highly fitting homage to real stories: Adam Bruce reviews Zodwa Nyoni’s punchy, poetic paean to Leeds life.
15 June 2017
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Julius Caesar at the Bristol Old Vic
9 June – 1 July 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
Serie A in the senate house: Rosemary Waugh reviews a production of Julius Caesar featuring final year students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
13 June 2017
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Ebb at the Alma Tavern, Bristol
8 - 9 June 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
Of pebbles which the waves draw back: Rosemary Waugh reviews Nic McQuillan’s new one-man show about love and loss.
12 June 2017
Reviews • Chichester • National • Reviews
Review: Sweet Bird of Youth at Chichester Festival Theatre
June 2 - June 24
By Neil Dowden
Lacks real poignancy: The flaws in this little-performed Tennessee Williams are exposed in Jonathan Kent’s laboured production, says Neil Dowden.
12 June 2017
Reviews • National • Reviews • York
Review: From Shore to Shore at St Michael’s Chambers, York
June 9 - June 10
By Louise Jones
A wealth of variety and charm: Louise Jones review On the Wire’s From Shore to Shore.
9 June 2017
Reviews • Dublin • National • Reviews
Review: I Am a Bird Now at the Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
By Chris McCormack
This bird is stuck in its nest: Ross Gaynor’s eclectic new one-man drama at Dublin’s Theatre Upstairs doesn’t quite deliver, says Chris McCormack.
5 June 2017
Reviews • York
Review: Our Man in Havana at York Theatre Royal
31 May - 3 June 2017
By Louise Jones
Our lady in York (Louise Jones) reviews Our Man in Havana – in text messages.