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Review: Blue Stockings, Shakespeare’s Globe 26 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
“The only thing a woman can own is knowledge” The experience of a groundling at the Globe can range from the sublime (Eve Best clasping your hand) to the ridiculous (standing for two and a half hour ...
Review: Alice in Wonderland, St Paul’s Church 26 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then” Iris Theatre’s 2013 summer season got off to a cracking start with a viscerally imaginative take on Julius Caesar and much of the ...
Review: A Little Hotel on the Side, Theatre Royal Bath 25 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
"I’m the headless hunter of Honfleur, I’m the strangled Sister of Soissons, I’m the noseless Nun of Nantes” Those who know me will attest to how firmly I tend to hold my preconceptions, but I do try ...
Review: Titanic, Southwark Playhouse 25 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
“Possibly she won't go down Possibly she'll stay afloat Possibly all this could come to an end On a positive note...” Between them, producer Danielle Tarento and director Thom Southerland have bee...
Review: The Sound of Music, Open Air Theatre 22 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
“But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past there must have been a moment of truth" Despite never having seen it on the stage before, I hadn’t originally intended to go and see the Open Air Theatre’s...
Review: Fences, Duchess 20 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
“Don’t try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not.” The role of the anti-hero is a curious one - featuring a protagonist who sours and curdles as the play progresses is a bold...
Review: Liolà, National Theatre 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
“This is a potato party” Expectations are a funny thing. Luigi Pirandello’s reputation as one of our foremost dramatists comes from his metaphysical musings on identity and self but his 1916 play Lio...
Review: The Same Deep Water As Me, Donmar Warehouse 17 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
“I’m exhausted, sweating like a fucking dyslexic on Countdown” The Donmar Warehouse has two levels, stalls and a circle. It’s fairly obvious, you can’t really miss it – about half the audience is ups...
Review: The Comedy of Errors, Oxford University Dramatic Society at Southwark Playhouse 16 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
“Your town is troubled with unruly boys” With alumni such as Rory Kinnear, Rosamund Pike and Julian Ovenden, the Oxford University Dramatic Society seems as good a place as any to spot potential star...
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Broadway Studios 16 Aug 2013 | 04:28 am
“A merrier hour was never wasted there” Tucked away down the narrowest of alleyways on Tooting High Street is one of the most boisterous Shakespearean adaptations you could hope for, full of your mom...
