Building community: Catherine Love writes on a quietly radical performance, part of a series of public interventions by Common Wealth.
Reviews
24 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Point of Echoes at The Place
20 - 22 September 2018
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts
A frozen horizon: Josephine Balfour-Oatts writes on a dance-theatre piece about life on a remote lighthouse.
24 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Arabian Nights at Hoxton Hall
12 September - 13 October 2018
By Nabilah Said
A modern take on an old story: Nabilah Said reviews Nessah Muthy’s version of One Thousand and One Nights.
24 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Prisoner at National Theatre
Until 4th October
By J N Benjamin
Excruciating silences: Peter Brook’s drama is an exercise in painfully slow abstraction.
24 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Human Voice at The Gate Theatre
13 September – 6 October 2018
By William Drew
Nothing else on stage other than her pain: William Drew reviews Jean Cocteau’s end-of-a-realtionship monologue.
23 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Marathon at the Barbican
20 - 29 September 2018
By Hailey Bachrach
WARNING: Hailey Bachrach writes on an unpredictable look at amnesia by young international collective JAMS.
23 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Eyam at Shakespeare’s Globe
15 September - 13 October 2018
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Village politics made mighty: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Matt Hartley’s new play set in a Derbyshire plague village.
23 September 2018
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Touching the Void at the Bristol Old Vic
8 September - 6 October 2018
By Lilith Wozniak
Ingenious design: Lilith Wozniak reviews the stage adaptation of Joe Simpson’s memoir.
22 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Mouth Open, Story Jump Out at the Unicorn Theatre
18 September - 27 October 2018
By Nabilah Said
Document open, review jump out… Nabilah Said reviews Polarbear’s one-man show about how to tell a story.
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Divine Proportions at The Vaults
14th September - 12th January
By Freddie Machin
Wine, dine, smash the gender binary: Freddie Machin on Shotgun Carousel’s Bacchic dinner-theatre experience.
21 September 2018
Reviews • Dublin • Reviews
Review: Näher….Closer, Nearer, Sooner at Goethe-Institut, Dublin
Dublin ⋄ 20th-23rd September
By Chris McCormack
An unsatisfying haunting: Liz Roche’s site-specific dance piece summons the literary ghosts of Dublin’s Merrion Square
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Outsider at Print Room
Until 20th October
By Simon Gwynn
Pleasure-seeking animals: Ben Okri’s play is a visceral, accessible take on Albert Camus’s existentialist classic.
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Village at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Friday 7 September - Saturday 6 October 2018
By Henry Gleaden
Revolutionary acts: Henry Gleaden on Nadia Fall’s alarmingly current-feeling first show as AD at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
21 September 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Fishermen at Arcola Theatre
17 - 22 September 2018
By J N Benjamin
The beauty of brotherhood: J N Benjamin reviews the stage adaptation of Chigozie Obioma‘s novel.
20 September 2018
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Confirmation at the Lir Academy, Dublin
18 - 22 September 2018
By Chris McCormack
Chris McCormack reviews Xnthony’s musical memoir, as part of the Dublin Fringe 2018.