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Thursday, May 1, 2025
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Staging the radio play: The audio-visual world of ‘Under Milk Wood’
“Love the words!”That was the crisp command from Dylan Thomas, the 20th-century Welsh poet, to the cast of his radio play Under Milk Wood, just before a rehearsal in...
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Rhys Ponsford
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‘The Little Clay Cart’ brings Sanskrit back to life
As students left Oxford on the last weekend of Hilary, I visited St John’s...
Theatre
Faye Chang
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40 years after the miners’ strike, James Graham’s ‘This House’ still has a lot to offer
‘Humphrey: ‘If the right people don’t have power, do you know what happens? The...
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Thomas Armstrong
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Persuading the public: The play as propaganda
The play as propaganda has a long history. From the regime-affirming productions of Hieron,...
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Nancy Gittus
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“A little-known gem”
Thomas Player gives four stars to 'Dear Brutus', an underrated classic
“Sharp humour with profound philosophical underpinnings”
Giovanni Musella looks ahead at a new production of Blavatsky's Tower
“Elegant, witty, sophisticated, remarkable”: The ‘Philanthropist’
Katie Sayer and Emily Lawford meet the all-star cast of Simon Callow's production of 'The Philanthropist'
“Injections of humour amidst the Beckettian existential angst”
Emily Lawford is impressed by Leveaux’s revival of Tom Stoppard's meta-theatrical tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Love and humanity scattered amid the horror”
Emily Lawford enjoys a genuinely frightening production of Macbeth
A word from the stalls
Miriam Nemmaoui speaks to a tipsy audience member at Suzy Cripps’ 'The Optimists'
“Even while expecting an hour of postmodernist drama, I couldn’t have been more unprepared”
Katie Sayer recovers from the gripping and disturbing 'Marat/Sade' at the Keble O'Reilly
A disturbing worldview undercut by patchy acting
Olivia Cormack finds that it's not just the costumes in Contractions that need ironing out
“More gentle slap than sucker punch”
Katheryn Thompson finds Made in Dagenham lacking in political grit
“A bold and unapologetic production”
Surya Bowyer is frustrated by a powerful production of 'Suspiria' which comes so close to greatness
Anything but a simple fairy-tale
Ebere Nweze is impressed by this unnerving and sharp new adaptation of Wilde’s short story
“Young, classy and capable of mischief”
Jacob Greenhouse is impressed by the freshness of Consortium Novum’s production of The Marriage of Figaro
A word from the stalls
Miriam Nemmaoui chats to an audience member who is left feeling nostalgic by Anna Karenina
“An enormous array of talent on display”
Jonnie Barrow enjoys a bumpy ride through a musical twist on a classic
‘We’re going to do it better than Braveheart’
If your schooling was anything like Tom Fisher's, who is playing Ross in this new production of Macbeth, you studied the Scottish play in...
Preview: ‘Tender Napalm’
Emily Lawford is stifled and mesmerised by this production of Tender Napalm
“Krapp isn’t quite of this world”
Sian Bayley is finds chills and thrills in this production's take on Beckett's exploration of failure
Both disturbing and utterly engaging: Suddenly Last Summer
With the tagline, “Something unspeakable happened last summer”, you might be forgiven for thinking of Aunt Ada Doom’s (Cold Comfort Farm) cry of “I...
A word from the stalls
Miriam Nemmaoui receives mixed feedback from an audience member after Suddenly Last Summer
Two lonely people, one heartrending production
Bessie Yuill promises an intense evening of Beckett made accessible to all
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