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There is an unexpected inversion in Katy Nixon’s two-hander that creates a special tension. When we meet her, Kyla MacDougall…
The adaptation of movies into musicals continues apace. The latest addition to this booming subgenre is 2004 romcom 13 Going…
Most of us simply dig up memories but the couple in Frantic Assembly’s new show clamber over a wall of…
Waiting for Godot is, as the saying goes, a play in which nothing happens, twice. Two men, old acquaintances, spend…
The most dangerous moment of this play comes in an opening address by a power-dressed woman. She asks the audience…
William Golding’s 1954 novel is doubly pessimistic about the human tendency towards violence. Schoolchildren on an evacuation flight from a…
A three-hour durational show with a three-minute pause rather than an interval is a daunting prospect. However, Lacrima gathers its…
It takes courage and some flamboyance to launch an inaugural programme as the National Theatre’s new director with a debut…
Shakespeare’s drama about the double standards of despots who are drunk on their own power was of course going to…
An early blast of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance sets the mood of this 21st-century take on Jane Austen’s comedy of…