Reviews

Ham and jam and Spam(alot): a grim combination but a lovingly revived musical, Spamalot brings you the classic gags from the loved Monty Python and the Holy Grail. From floppy fish …

Things I like: Shakespeare, glitter (sorry, environment), and Soft Cell’s 1981 hit ‘Tainted Love’. Something I therefore liked by extension: ShakeSoc’s 48-hour production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For theatre …

Mark O’Rowe’s 1999 play, ‘Howie the Rookie’, is a frantic and tangled tale set in the midst of working-class Dublin. The two monologues that comprise its narrative weave separate yet interlinking …

Shakespeare’s celebrated play of ambition, the supernatural, and a mad tyrant, iconically set in the scenic highlands of Scotland during the Middle Ages, is taken to Japan and transformed into …

Online Arts and Lit Editor, Ellie Cook, judges Jon Richardson’s stand-up performance, his comedic material and his fashion sense.

How exactly does one adapt a play for a modern audience without losing too much of the flavour of the original? Frequently termed the female Hamlet, Hedda Gabler certainly has …

Haunting backlights, dark silhouettes and convicting voiceovers – the implications of deeper truths and knowledge are hardly deficient in Bawren Tavaziva’s Izindava. The dancers took me on an intense journey …

Twelfth Night has always been one of Shakespeare’s most memorable and fun-filled comedies. The Globe’s most recent production definitely fulfils that legacy, albeit with a much stronger emphasis on the …

Broadcast live from the Young Vic theatre, Simon Stone’s reworking of Federico García Lorca’s play, Yerma, can be summed up in two words; brutally chaotic. These words, however, are by no …

It was a Friday night and, in true British fashion, the rain had not stopped. I was debating whether or not the show I needed to attend would be worth …