If one of the definitions of post-feminism is to reclaim traditional gender roles, albeit a concept embraced by some and loathed by others, then perhaps a fresh interpretation in an unconventional body is required to express the conflicts inherent in the feminine psyche. Granted, it may not have … [Read more...]
Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet | Review
American novelist and playwright Don DeLillo's 2005 play, Love-Lies-Bleeding, concerns itself with death as an end game and the so-called significant others who surround its protagonist, Alex Macklin (Joe McGann), a 70-year-old landscape artist who, after suffering a stroke, is in the final stages … [Read more...]
Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour at Park Theatre | Review
It is difficult to write a dispassionate review of Honour, a 1995 play by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith. An adult drama may be buried somewhere at Honour's core but, in actuality, it is a comic parody of a 32-year marriage that dissolves when George, a distinguished literary intellectual … [Read more...]
The Wider Earth at The Natural History Museum | Review
A young Charles Darwin and his heroic efforts to produce a theory of evolution by natural selection are brought to life in The Wider Earth, an immersive production performed at the Natural History Museum that will captivate audiences of all ages for a long time to come. The Wider Earth written, … [Read more...]
The Height of the Storm at Wyndham’s Theatre | Review
Celebrated French Playwright Florian Zeller has thrown a lightning bolt onto the stage in his latest play, The Height of the Storm, one which crackles with the energy of modern day Greek tragedy. It is a beautifully crafted play wrapped inside a gossamer veil of lost memory and ghosted … [Read more...]
Review: Print Room at the Coronet Presents The Outsider (L’Étranger)
Albert Camus' most enduring novel, L'Étranger, is now enjoying its first major theatrical production in the UK. For those who are unfamiliar with the story, its central character, a French Algerian, buries his mother and a few days later kills an Arab whose sister has been brutalised by his friend. … [Read more...]
Mistero Buffo at The Italian Theatre Festival | Print Room at The Coronet
"Nothing is more dangerous than saying something that might be true" (Anonymous). On 30th and 31st August, The Print Room at the Coronet presented the Italian Theatrical Festival 2018 in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in London. As theatregoers, we are truly indebted to the … [Read more...]