This week on my Twitter feed I throw shade on the celebrations for Shakespeare's birthday, make smutty comments about The Voice and discover a new form of theatre audience rudeness ( Read more... )

London theatre's most overt attempt to commemorate the 9/11 anniversary comes from director Rupert Goold and his Headlong theatre company, who've put together Decade from contributions by 19 British and American writers. Goold and set designer Miriam Buether have gone for a similar staging to the one they created for last year's Earthquakes in ( Read more... )

After last year's Romeo and Juliet I was in rather a hurry to see Rupert Goold's next production for the RSC, but as aka_kelly felt the same way I waited until we could find a weekend to suit us both. So now I finally make it to Stratford to see The Merchant of Venice or, as people are calling it, The Merchant of Vegas as that's where Goold, reuniting with ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed: The weather changes so suddenly I get caught out in the sun with no sunblock, and as everyone fails to get the Olympics tickets they applied for I get smug about the fact that I didn't bother applying in the first place ( Read more... )

This year was so overwhelmingly about theatre trips, even by my standards, that I’ll only be doing the theatre roundup this time around. It’d be nice to do a personal roundup so I guess in 2011 I’ll just have to remember to get a personal life. In the meantime it’s the more memorable shows of the year, for good reasons or bad (with just over 200 ( Read more... )

I suspected as much back in May and I did indeed go back to see the RSC's current Romeo & Juliet, likely to be my show of 2010, which started its limited London run at the Roundhouse last night. I won't review it all again because I gave it quite a detailed review at the time. But again if you're able to and think you might go to the London or New ( Read more... )

So it's another week on Twitter, in which I got overexcited about a shower scene in Misfits (even if the rest of you didn't - weirdos!) made jokes about a couple of celebrity deaths (with varying degrees of affection) and ended the week by fanboying my favourite theatre director ( Read more... )

A lot of London theatres have been massively redesigning their auditoria for specific productions in the last couple of years, a trend which the National Theatre, which has a third studio theatre designed specifically for the purpose, has rather fallen behind on. It's playing catch-up in style though with Earthquakes in London, for which the ( Read more... )

"Not all Shakespeare plays are great. I can happily never see another Romeo and Juliet. I'd never see that play again unless there was an amazing cast or an amazing director - if Rupert Goold directed Romeo and Juliet, I'd go." I can't remember the context or who I was talking to, but those are much the words I said a couple of months ago. Within ( Read more... )

Yes, I managed to get a ticket to ENRON. Actually it wasn't that impressive of me, as I booked as soon as it went on sale, so long before it opened in Chichester and became one of the most talked-about plays of the year. There's not much I can add to the many reviews so far except to say I pretty much agree: Writer Lucy Prebble and director Rupert ( Read more... )