Theatre Reviews & More

Most multilingual theatre uses subtitles, but Exchange Theatre has a rather different approach. In all of their productions, some nights...

Romeo and Juliet is notoriously difficult to stage. Being probably the most famous play of all time puts pressure on to produce something...

Arthur Miller’s dense drama is one of those rare plays that will always be relevant, in some way or another. Concealing and ultimately...

“Never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Perhaps, but there can be an awful lot of despair that comes with...

"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?" From the glossy sheen of the Young Vic's production of the classic Tennessee William's...

Auckland's Pop-Up Globe is a sight to behold. A scale replica of the London original, the detail that has gone into recreating the...

No matter the strength of a production, I will always take my hat off to open air performances. There is always a great deal of risk and...

When is a production of Medea not a production of Medea? Apparently, when the Koreans do it. Theatre group Seongbukdong Beedoolkee have...

Adaptations in new settings can change an entire production. Sometimes you can take a Shakespeare play, for example, set it in post-World...

Here we go again, Angus Jackson. Regular readers will know that my response to Jackson’s Rome season at the RSC has been quite mixed so...