Barbara Lewis reports on the Sterts Art Centre
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Katie Campbell reviews some recent productions on the London stage …
“I’m not having an affair. It’s better than that …” (Haunted Child’s Douglas, played by Ben Daniels) Haunted Child is the latest offering to the Royal Court from Joe Penhall. Sadly, this Jeremy Herrin directed three hander falls rather short of expectation.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews the National Theatre production
The State vs John Hayes. At the beginning of 2012 there were 58 women on death row in America. The State vs John Hayes is a searing seventy minute monologue by one such woman.
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Sex, Satire and the Supernatural by B. J. Rahn
The Passenger English National Opera (until 25 October) Yes it is shocking to set an opera in Auschwitz. It shouldn’t work. But it does. David Pountney’s startling production of Mieczylaw Weinberg’s 1968 The Passenger breaks new ground.
By Stephen McGrath • music, opera, Year 2012