“The artifice of attempting to recreate a life is laid bare” in Simon McBurney’s staging of Robert Evans’ biography. Review by Holly Williams.
Venues: Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs
30 January 2017
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Escaped Alone at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 21 Jan - 11 Feb 2017
By Lee Anderson
Locates the absurd within a terrible bleakness: Lee Anderson reviews the return of Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone to the Royal Court.
25 November 2016
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Children at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 25th November 2016 - 14th January 2017
By Corrie Tan
A core of decay but also a throbbing, excited nucleus: Corrie Tan reviews the premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children.
24 September 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Father Comes Home From the Wars (parts 1, 2 and 3) at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 15th September - 22nd October 2016
By Amy Borsuk
Amy Borsuk provides an American perspective on Suzan-Lori Parks’s trilogy.
25 July 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Pigs and Dogs at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 20 - 30 July 2016
By Gillian Greer
Gillian Greer reviews the play that took fifteen minutes to watch with a review that took fifteen minutes to write.
12 July 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Unreachable at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 2nd July - 6th August 2016
By Maddy Costa
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter;” Maddy Costa reviews Anthony Neilson’s latest work at the Royal Court.
8 June 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Minefield at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 2nd - 11th June 2016
By Maddy Costa
Sharing a language of trauma: Maddy Costa reviews Lola Arias’s production with veterans of the Falklands War, as part of LIFT 2016.
7 April 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: X at the Royal Court
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 30th March - 7th May 2016
By Catherine Love
Catherine Love on the “chilling normality” of the deep space horrors that fill Alistair McDowall’s new play.
30 January 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Escaped Alone at Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 21st January - 12th March 2016
By Catherine Love
‘While four older women sip from their mugs in a sun-bathed garden, premonitions of catastrophe lurk behind their innocuous chit-chat.’
27 January 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Yen at Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 22nd January - 13th February 2016
By Lauren Mooney
Lauren Mooney reviews a play about ‘directionless, desperate love with no outlet; a yearning without a name; a yen.’
2 December 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Linda
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 25th November 2015 - 9th January 2016
By Stewart Pringle
The protagonist of her own life.
6 November 2015
Reviews • Reviews • West End & Central
RoosevElvis
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 21st October - 14th November
By Alice Saville
Hallucinogenic realness.
20 September 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Hangmen
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 10th September - 10th October 2015
By Stewart Pringle
Gallows humour.
19 June 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
hang
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 11th June - 18th July 2015.
By Tom Wicker
A clenched fist.
15 April 2015
Reviews • West End & Central
Roald Dahl’s The Twits
Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs ⋄ 14th April - 31st May 2015
By Stewart Pringle
Bold, political, anarchic.