Martin Crimp’s The Treatment is a scathing look at the cutthroat film industry in America, as a naive young woman is taken and swallowed whole by a group of vicious film producers as they chop and change her harrowing story to fit the needs of Hollywood. Under Lyndsey Turner’s capable hand, what appears to initially be a couple’s therapy session quickly give way to something completely different. … Continue reading Review: The Treatment at The Almeida Theatre

Set to be the theatrical event of the year, Angels In America is finally on at the National Theatre with a stellar cast, including television’s Russell Tovey and Oscar-nominated Andrew Garfield. Having first premiered in 1991 and 1992, Tony Kushner’s magnum opus is as intimate in narrative as it is epic in scope, tackling morality and mortality in the land of the free amidst the backdrop of … Continue reading Review: Angels in America by the National Theatre

Salomé. A nameless dancer, wife to Herod the Great, shunned as a symbol of female seduction, and defamed in literature as a vengeful harpy directly responsible for the death of John the Baptist. Director Yaël Farber seeks to reclaim the myth and rid it of misogyny in this new production of the classic myth. This new play reframes Salomé as a victim of patriarchal persecution … Continue reading Review: Salome by The National Theatre

be•wilder weren’t kidding when they said their company was all about international cultures and a myriad of backgrounds – their debut show Old Joe’s Fish and Chill features a multiracial cast with a multilingual script and characters with serious history. Set in a dystopian future where immigration has become heavily monitored and countries have been renamed to sound oddly similar to London postcodes, the titular Old Joe’s … Continue reading Review: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder

Laura Turner’s The Buried Moon re-imagines The Tempest‘s Miranda and Caliban as two wayward British teenagers growing up in the Lincolnshire fens in the 2010s. Taking close inspiration from Shakespeare’s text, it’s a setting that works surprisingly well. Framing Miranda and Caliban’s history as a fundamentally tragic one and shedding light on what it potentially might have been, The Buried Moon manages to simultaneously demonize and sympathize with Caliban, while … Continue reading Review: The Buried Moon at the Rose Playhouse

Following the runaway success of the Tony Award winning Spring Awakening was never going to be an easy task, but that is the burden that Whisper House bears. Duncan Sheik’s next musical is considerably shorter and much more contained, with just a cast of six in its two act duration. Whisper House is a somewhat experimental musical. For one thing, its subject matter is a little unexpected – a … Continue reading Review: Whisper House at The Other Palace Theatre