Featured Stories
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Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
27 November 2011 3:35 PM | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen.
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Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
27 November 2011 2:15 PM | 1 CommentA couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer.
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Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!)
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Review – Simon Callow in Tuesdays at Tescos, Assembly Hall
20 August 2011 9:28 AM | 1 CommentWhat an embarrassing title. I'm embarrassed by it, and I'm not even Simon Callow. ★★
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Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No CommentsInteresting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
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young vic Archive
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Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen. -
Review – Faust, Young Vic
Posted on September 27, 2010 | 3 CommentsBut then it all kicks off, and turns into the sort of thing that Health and Safety officers must wake up in the middle of the night screaming about. -
Good week / Bad week
Posted on September 17, 2010 | 2 CommentsAnd the winners are... Royal Opera House, Young Vic and Barbican. Nil points for The Netherlands and National Theatre. -
Review – Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Young Vic
Posted on June 6, 2010 | 2 CommentsIt’s a little bit difficult to quite work out what August Wilson’s play, now running at the Young Vic, is driving at. -
Review – The Girlfriend Experience, Young Vic
Posted on August 15, 2009 | 3 CommentsThe Girlfriend Experience The Recorded Delivery Writing and Performance Technique consists of recordings being played to actors through headphones during the performance, allowing them to copy “not just the words but exactly the way in which they were first spoken” so that “every cough, stutter... -
A Night Less Ordinary
Posted on August 7, 2009 | No CommentsBefore the Arts Council decided that it was all about the middle aged, they used to think that theatre was all about the young people. A relic of this golden age is A Night Less Ordinary, a remarkable scheme whereby those under 26 years old... -
Edinburgh Fringe Picks – Part the First
Posted on July 6, 2009 | 1 Commentedfringe logo The Fringe. Where to start? 2098 shows, every young theatre company and comic in the country if not the world, descending on the Forth for an entire month, a festival of theatre and music and comedy and drunkenness. What to pick? A programme...
