Marlowe’s Tamburlaine was loosely based on the life of Timur, the fourteenth Turco-Mongol tyrant who conquered huge swathes of Africa [Read More]
Hamlet at the Almeida Theatre
There is an issue with changing the setting and context of great plays in an effort to make them more [Read More]
Antony and Cleopatra at the RSC
Iqbal Khan’s swiftly moving, ever-bustling production of Antony and Cleopatra superabounds with sex, death and exoticism. From the outset we [Read More]
An American In Paris at the Dominion Theatre
This afternoon, the director of An American In Paris, veteran choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, thanked La La Land for bringing back the [Read More]
Re-Opening of the Bush Theatre
‘Open, porous and plural’ – Madani Youris’s vision of the new Bush Theatre, reopening after a year-long, 4.3 million major [Read More]
One Last Thing (For Now) At the Old Red Lion
Words, letters, writing – all are easy targets for the stage. The fluid juxtaposition of physical with verbal makes for [Read More]