The Match Box – Tricycle Theatre/The Hothouse – Trafalgar Studios Transformed – review by Carole Woddis.
Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, two giants and masters of their genre.
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The Breadwinner – Orange Tree Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
Somerset Maugham is probably a name that means little to today’s generation. Yet, like Terence Rattigan, he was one of Britain’s most popular and leading playwrights.
The Generation Game, a season of plays at The Yard, Hackney Wick, London – review by Carole Woddis.
With every passing week, London seems to sprout another new theatre venue, converted from some old industrial wasteland, derelict factory or dockyard premises. And now here’s another, new to me but apparently in its second year of operation and certainly worth checking out.
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – Hampstead Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
The Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei’s iconic face stares out of the Hampstead theatre programme. One of the most famous profiles in western Art, he has become a symbol for the struggle for human rights and freedom of expression the world over.
Three Birds – Bush Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
Janice Okoh’s Three Birds, which won the prestigious Bruntwood playwriting prize for 2011, was warmly praised by Simon Stephens, one of this country’s foremost playwrights and Chair of the judges for the award.
The Low Road – Royal Court Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
Think of Tom Jones. Then again, think of Lucy Prebble’s Enron and you’ll get an idea of Bruce Norris’ rollicking The Low Road.
Trash, The White Bear, London
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons has a sizeable reputation and presumably had a budget to compare for his docu-drama Trashed, on release across the globe to expose how much our society wastes and the damage that results.
Longing – Hampstead Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
What do you get if you cross two Chekhov short stories with a British novelist, in the words of the theatre’s artistic director, working `at the peak of his creative powers’? Answer: Chekhov lite.
Above Me The Wide Blue Sky – Young Vic Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
As technology draws us further and further away from experiencing life to merely recording it – mobile cameras ever at the ready – along comes this latest piece from the ever inventive children and adult theatre company, Fevered Sleep, to remind us of what we are perilously close to losing.
The Audience – Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London – review by Carole Woddis.
There is one notable exception to the parade of Prime Ministers writer Peter Morgan presents before Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience. Tony Blair is conspicuous by his absence.
If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep – Royal Court Theatre – review by Carole Woddis.
Anders Lustgarten is an anti-capitalist activist. And playwright. And this grandly titled assault on Coalition economic policy is but the latest in his campaign to open our eyes, not just to its iniquities but its illogicality.
The Stepmother – Orange Tree, Richmond – review by Carole Woddis.
Fashion in Theatre as in Art has a time lapse. Playwrights who were fashionable in their time disappear only to re-emerge and be `re-discovered’. Nowhere more so than with female playwrights.
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