Reviews – Archive

Measure for Measure

This is a production fascinated by the psychological dissection of individual souls, but without much concern for the real-world consequences of its protagonists’ moral and marital manoeuvres.

Mar 9 2010 | View Comments

11 and 12

By Beverly Andrews

One of the most touching moments in the play comes when the two leaders of 11 and 12 meet and talk through the night about their conflicting beliefs.

Mar 7 2010 | View Comments

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By Mika Eglinton

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has turned out to be a box-office smash hit in the West End, but what does this reverse-race production bring to Tennessee Williams’ modern classic?

Feb 19 2010 | View Comments

Play on Words

By Diana Damian

Play on Words is an old fashioned confection of moments both tragic and comic, juggling language and dramatic structure in an elegant production.

Jan 24 2010 | View Comments

Stick Man

By Stephe Harrop

A confident, charming, polished and thoroughly reliable seasonal entertainment for the very littlest theatre-goers.

Dec 15 2009 | View Comments

Jiggery Pokery: An Homage to Charles Hawtrey

By Stephe Harrop

This unconventional bio-drama is like a macabre inversion of the usual Christmas theatre outing.

Dec 7 2009 | View Comments

Lady Julia

By Matt Boothman

In The Lamplight’s Lady Julia brings August Strindberg’s seminal Miss Julie bang up to date. How does it fare in its new 21st century context?

Dec 3 2009 | View Comments

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays

By Matt Boothman

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays work so well as a double bill; it seems likely they were always meant to be performed together.

Dec 3 2009 | View Comments

Petrushka

By Stephe Harrop

Petrushka is an ambitious conglomeration of jokes, dance, music, tragedy and magic tricks.

Nov 28 2009 | View Comments

Hall

By Matt Boothman

Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.

Nov 21 2009 | View Comments