Torn loyalties are at the heart of this National Theatre touring production – both in the story and the delivery.
Explore MoreYou might go to a Mark Thomas gig expecting to be harangued, to be
heckled — but you don’t go expecting to have your heart toyed with.
With his latest show Bravo Figaro, you should.
The death of a child prodigy leaves a chilling mark behind in this tightly-wrought production of an Alan Ayckbourn classic.
Explore More“If the Lord is watching, the least we can do is be entertaining,” says one of the characters in Five Marys Waiting – and while I can’t speak for God, the audience definitely found them to be.
Explore MoreWhen Hamlet finishes, nearly everyone is dead. The rest, it is
said, is silence.
This Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar transports the drama to Africa, in an attempt to emphasise the tribal and fractious nature of the play.
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Shakespeare’s play of star-crossed lovers is one of unfortunate timing as much as anything else: for the Icarus Theatre Collective hitting town at the same time as the RSC makes for some unhappy comparisons.
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Top of the list of television’s sacred cows must be Fawlty Towers, so taking it out at as touring stage production might be considered either brave or stupid.
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How do you tell one of the best known fairy tales in a new way? By assembling a cast of more than 200 and turning the very idea of storytelling on its head.
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Could a traumatic childhood event lead to an insular life of fantasy? That’s the question posed by the third play by Norfolk-born playwright Beatrice Armstrong.
Explore MoreThe county still being alight with Olympic flame fever, what could
be more fitting than a ‘lost’ Aristophanes comedy to round off the
festivities?
Everything has its place and time: sometimes you want thought-provoking drama, evocative romance or weep-enducing tragedy. And sometimes you want a laugh.
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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
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Shakespeare’s plays are often crudely divided between comedies and tragedies; the director of this latest production of Twelfth Night clearly didn’t get that memo.
Explore MoreRarely has the Theatre Royal stage’s potential been so richly
exploited as in Stephen Daldry’s production of An Inspector Calls.