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To Kill a Mockingbird, Gielgud Theatre
A plea for tolerance in an age of polarised politics. Timely or naive? Read on and find out!
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A Doll’s House Part II, Donmar Warehouse
Sometimes they come back.
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Straight Line Crazy, Bridge Theatre
It may not be vintage David Hare but Straight Line Crazy is an important piece of social history.
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The Scottish Play (the Bard in a Yard): A private basement garden, West Kensington
Review by Anne O’Donoghue Sitting in a garden in Kensington I was treated to an enchanting and magical performance of the Scottish Play. Blackbirds flitted across the garden and in the background, we heard an ambulance siren and then a baby wail. This all lent to a surreal atmosphere whereby perhaps a spirit from another…
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I am of Ireland, Old Red Lion Theatre
“I am of Ireland”, a new play from Seamus Finnegan, aims to explore what it is to be Irish in 2018. Perhaps the timing couldn’t be any more apt, with the Irish attempting to deal once again with a divisive political decision that was out of their control. Although the play tracks the lives of…
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Shanine’s 2017 Theatre Highs at a glance
I decided to compile a quick look at the best theatre of the year, though I failed to see anything in December. The year had many highlights; new plays hosted by Theatre N16, which closed in December and is looking for a new home, amongst revivals of forgotten classics such as Incident at Vichy, which…
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Disco Pigs, Trafalgar Studios
2017 marks the 20th anniversary of Enda Walsh’s ‘Disco Pigs’, a play that has spawned various stage and screen adaptations since its debut at Cork’s Triskel Arts Centre in 1996 (which technically makes it the 21st anniversary, but we’re apparently counting from its first major showing at the Edinburgh Festival the following year). To mark…
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The God of Hell, Theatre N16
This post was edited on 19 July to correct some rookie errors It seems utterly unfathomable that Sam Shepard’s play, The God of Hell, was written in 2005 and not yesterday. Written as a response to George W Bush’s Republican Party’s war on terror following the attacks in September 2001 only 12 years after this play’s…
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The View from Nowhere, Park Theatre
Diversity, or lack of it, in the elite is often talked about. The lack of BME representation in industries such as medicine, politics, judiciary and of course theatre and the arts dominates conversations with the question of how to improve numbers never truly being answered. View from Nowhere looks at what happens when you break…
View from the Cheap Seat 