Tag: theatre review

The Weir review – There's only one possible response to seeing Brendan Gleeson on stage

In a show shaded with supernatural chills, it hardly seems real that…

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The Land of the Living review – Classy but underwhelming play about stolen Nazi children

Prestige theatre doesn't come more prestigious than Stephen Daldry directing Juliet Stevenson…

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Bacchae review – Great cast and staging, shame about the concept and text

Warrior women and uppity females are very much in evidence in Nima…

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Entertaining Mr Sloane review – More outrageous than ever and Tamzin Outhwaite is superb

Joe Orton’s play caused a scandal when it premiered in 1964 and…

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The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry is a fabulous Lady Bracknell

Oscar Wilde's masterpiece groans under the weight of killer lines, but this…

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Clarkston review – Heartstopper's Joe Locke and Ruaridh Mollica shine in shallow play

Heartstopper and Marvel's Agatha All Along fans hoping to see more twitchy,…

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Entertaining Mr Sloane review – Sex, murder and a deliciously twisted Tamzin Outhwaite

Primly derided when it premiered in 1964 as "a milk-curdling essay in…

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The Weir review – Brendan Gleeson shines in extraordinary portrait of loneliness

Not so much a ghost story as a story about ghosts, Conor…

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The Lady From The Sea review: Alicia Vikander stars in frustrating show

Henrik Ibsen must be sick and tired of having his plays ’reimagined’…

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Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander are drowning in the soggy The Lady From The Sea

Rain is sleeting down on stage, a genuine Hollywood star is writhing…

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