The Resistible Rise of Arthur Ui is a thinly veiled parable giving account of all the key events in Hitler’s rise to power in the 30s in Germany. This stylish production set in Chicago’s gangster world during the heydays of the Great Depression features a strong cast. It’s so funny, it’s terrifying. At the Duchess […]
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Glittery, hot mess: The Lightning Child at Shakespeare’s Globe
With their latest Season of Plenty offering the Globe invites to a trippy celebration of the Dionysian spirit. In The Lightning Child Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill have reworked Euripides’ The Bacchus into a sprawling joyride spiced with musical numbers. At Shakespeare’s Globe. Everything starts out so promisingly. The colourful Globe stage is draped completely […]
Missing the forest for the peas: Secret Theatre Show 1 at the Lyric Hammersmith
In Sean Holmes’ speech a few months back the Lyric’s artistic director sharply diagnosed that theatre in this country has succumbed to a corrupting reign of commercial interests over artistic merit. Holmes announced his attempt at fixing a corrupting system. The result is a season of up to seven shows the title of which would […]
Turandot at the Royal Opera House
Daunting death masks, ever-present uncanny and distorted monstrosities, overshadow the stage at the Royal Opera House. In ancient Peking princess Turandot has her suitors executed if they’re not able to answer her three riddles. It might not be a radical new version of Puccini’s piece but the handling of the melodramatic twists and some of […]