“Heart-warming mix of sincerity and self-mockery”: Eleanor Turney reviews Jamie Wood’s show involving a bag load of audience participation.
Eleanor Turney
Articles by Eleanor Turney
15 May 2016
Reviews • Bristol • National • Reviews
Review: Chekhov’s First Play at Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic ⋄ 12th - 14th May 2016
By Eleanor Turney
“Very, very clever”: Eleanor Turney reviews Dead Centre’s picking apart and rebuilding of Chekhov (with added Miley Cyrus).
15 May 2016
Reviews • Bristol • Reviews
Review: Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) at Circomedia
Circomedia ⋄ 13th - 14th May 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Eleanor Turney reviews Lost Dog’s show about “a very human God” at Mayfest 2016.
3 May 2016
Features
Bristol’s Mayfest: “This city is our stage”
By Eleanor Turney
Matthew Austin, co-director of Bristol performance festival Mayfest, is filling the city with work from artists including Bryony Kimmings, Action Hero, Tim Crouch, Selina Thompson and Sh!t Theatre. Here, he talks to Eleanor Turney about the “creative endeavour” of crafting a festival.
1 April 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Les Blancs at National Theatre
National Theatre ⋄ 22nd March - 2nd June 2016
By Eleanor Turney
“It’s a deeply uncomfortable play to watch, and one that makes us confront, head-on, our own assumptions.”
7 March 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: I See You at Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Upstairs ⋄ 25th February - 26th March 2016
By Eleanor Turney
A lack of subtlety disrupts Mongiwekhaya’s play at the Royal Court.
15 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Spanish Tragedy at the Old Red Lion
Old Red Lion ⋄ 9th February - 5th March 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Blue bloodied bodies pile up in Dan Hutton’s The Spanish Tragedy.
15 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Uncle Vanya at the Almeida
Almeida Theatre ⋄ 5th February - 26th March 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Time becomes something elastic, chewy and distorted in Robert Icke’s extraordinary Uncle Vanya.
3 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at National Theatre
National Theatre ⋄ 26th January - 18th May 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Eleanor Turney reviews August Wilson’s “clever and depressingly relevant play”, in which music is simply work.
30 January 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Kite at Soho Theatre
26th January - 6th February 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Eleanor Turney reviews “a simple story of a young, bereaved girl who moves in with her grandmother” that never quite takes flight.
26 January 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Horror at Peacock Theatre
Peacock Theatre ⋄ 25th and 26th January 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Jakop Ahlbom Company make a show that is ‘fresh, funny and downright astonishing’.
14 December 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Hapgood
Hampstead Theatre ⋄ 4th December 2015 - 23rd January 2016
By Eleanor Turney
Tom Stoppard’s spy games.
31 October 2015
Reviews
The Moderate Soprano
Hampstead Theatre ⋄ 23rd October - 28th November 2015
By Eleanor Turney
The man who made Glyndebourne.
27 October 2015
Features
Patsy Ferran: “You become a detective and it’s like a mystery to solve.”
By Eleanor Turney
The actor talks to Eleanor Turney about the riddle of the rehearsal room and working on the National’s new production of As You Like It.
14 October 2015
Features
The Crucible: “It’s a kind of Everest.”
By Eleanor Turney
As Manchester Royal Exchange and Bristol Old Vic both stage Arthur Miller’s play, Eleanor Turney asked directors Caroline Steinbeis and Tom Morris: why now?