Same as it ever was: Hailey Bachrach reviews the RSC’s long-delayed take on Shakespeare’s play, as shown on BBC4.
Hailey Bachrach
Articles by Hailey Bachrach
3 March 2020
Reviews
Review: United Queendom by Les Enfants Terribles
By Hailey Bachrach
Big wigs: Kensington Palace’s new immersive show about two powerful queens doesn’t win over historical reenactments fan Hailey Bachrach.
2 March 2020
Features
Not My Story
By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach spots a trend: female characters breaking the fourth wall to rail against their limited options.
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
Review: Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
Casting a shadow: Hailey Bachrach writes on the moving darkness of Tom Stoppard’s study of Jewish identity.
11 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Haystack at Hampstead Theatre
31st January - 7th February
By Hailey Bachrach
Hacked off: Hailey Bachrach reviews Al Blyth’s ‘briskly-plotted political drama’ about online surveillance.
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.
19 September 2019
Reviews
Review: Big – the Musical at Dominion Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
“Did anyone spend a single second thinking about this show?!” – Hailey Bachrach writes on a baffling stage outing for the ’80s bodyswap movie.
24 July 2019
Reviews
Review: The Bridges of Madison County at Menier Theatre
13th July-14th September 2019
By Hailey Bachrach
A dampened fire: Hailey Bachrach writes on Trevor Nunn’s unduly coy staging of a fiercely romantic musical.
11 July 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar at Barbican Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
Divine designs: Hailey Bachrach writes on the visual splendour and religious themes of a slick take on Webber and Rice’s hit musical.
30 June 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Othello Remixed at Omnibus Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
In his corner: Hailey Bachrach reviews Darren Raymond’s adaptation of Othello, which does not do enough to confront the problems of Shakespeare’s original.
20 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Light in the Piazza at Southbank Centre
14th June - 5th July 2019
By Hailey Bachrach
Jagged and off-kilter: Hailey Bachrach writes on a flawed revival of a lyrical musical.
8 March 2019
Reviews
Review: A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios
6th-30th March
By Hailey Bachrach
Polar opposites: Hailey Bachrach writes on Tatty Hennessy’s narrative of arctic exploration, and the weight of female role models.
18 February 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Come From Away at Phoenix Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
Hope and pain: Hailey Bachrach writes on a hit musical following the fates of the ‘plane people’ who landed in Newfoundland, post 9/11.
6 February 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Icarus at the Unicorn Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
‘Believing deep down that things are, should be, can be fair’: Hailey Bachrach reviews Cressida Brown’s production of a new take on the high-flying myth.