Let there be light: Hannah Greenstreet reviews Alistair McDowall’s dazzling new play.
Hannah Greenstreet
Articles by Hannah Greenstreet
20 December 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Peggy for You at Hampstead Theatre
10 December - 29 January
By Hannah Greenstreet
New writing, old tropes: Hannah Greenstreet reviews an overly reverent backward-looking take on the story of formidable literary agent Peggy Ramsay.
13 December 2021
Reviews • National • Oxford
Review: Mrs Delgado at the Old Fire Station, Oxford
8 - 21 December
By Hannah Greenstreet
‘There is a kind of pleasure in judging other people’: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Mike Bartlett’s monologue exploring social mores in lockdown.
10 October 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Athena at the Yard
4 - 23rd October
By Hannah Greenstreet
En garde: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Gracie Gardner’s ‘poised, a little weird and deeply funny’ play about a friendship between two teenage fencers.
6 September 2021
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
25 August - 9 October
By Hannah Greenstreet
Ripples from the past: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Winsome Pinnock’s epic new play exploring the legacies of Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
15 August 2021
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Paradise at National Theatre
By Hannah Greenstreet
A festering wound: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Kae Tempest’s ‘savagely poetic’ adaptation of Philoctetes by Sophocles.
19 July 2021
Reviews • National • Oxford
Review: Under the Mask at Oxford Playhouse
12-15 July, then touring
By Hannah Greenstreet
Dispatches: Hannah Greenstreet reviews Shaan Sahota’s play informed by her experience as a junior doctor on a Covid ward.
8 April 2021
Reviews
Review: Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative at the Royal Court (online)
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hot off the press: Hannah Greenstreet reviews the Royal Court’s eclectic online experiment in rapid-response theatre.
5 October 2020
Reviews
Review: F**ked up Bedtime Stories, English Touring Theatre (Podcast)
By Hannah Greenstreet
Sing me to sleep: Hannah Greenstreet reviews an unsettling, discordant set of stories from English Touring Theatre.
20 September 2020
Reviews
Review: Faith Healer, Old Vic: In Camera
By Hannah Greenstreet
“You must awake your faith”: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the Old Vic’s livestreamed production of Faith Healer with Michael Sheen.
18 August 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux Review: Anatomy of a Suicide
By Hannah Greenstreet
Echoes through time: Hannah Greenstreet writes on her encounters with Alice Birch’s haunting exploration of intergenerational trauma.
19 May 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Yard Online
17th May
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hope and healing: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the intimate, soothing and disconcerting interactive digital performances at The Yard’s one day festival.
12 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Shoe Lady at the Royal Court
4th March - 21st March
By Hannah Greenstreet
‘An odyssey in miniature’: Hannah Greenstreet writes on E.V. Crowe’s new play about a woman whose life spirals out of control when she loses a shoe.
18 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The High Table at the Bush Theatre
8th February - 21st March
By Hannah Greenstreet
Heaven-sent: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Temi Wilkey’s moving queer Nigerian love story, set in London and the afterlife.
13 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Nora at the Young Vic
By Hannah Greenstreet
Nora, in triplicate: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the historical and economic themes of Stef Smith’s reimagined ‘A Doll’s House’.