Articles about Theatre

 Echoes of Virginia

Watching Viota is an almost exhausting experience for Hazel Robertson as the play examines radical culture changes in the shadow of Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

Hazel Robertson // 15 April 2013

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 White Rose could fly higher

Although the story of women fighter pilots during World War Two has a lot of potential, Rowena McIntosh and Hazel Robertson find the plot frustratingly superficial

Various Authors // 11 April 2013

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Where miracles happen and leave things exactly the same

Bringing a play from 19th century Sweden to contemporary South Africa, Mies Julie is a fascinating and devastating exploration of power, according to Charlotte Rowland

Charlotte Rowland // 31 March 2013

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Seeing Sylvia Sleigh

It's too little, too late for Flis Mitchell at Tate Liverpool's Sylvia Sleigh retrospective

Flis Mitchell // 22 February 2013

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 A taste of the 1950s

Watching the revival of A Taste of Honey, Rowena McIntosh finds that while some themes have lost their controversial appeal, others remain all too relevant

Rowena McIntosh // 5 February 2013

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Girls and gangs

Annika Spalding felt emotional, angry and speechless but moved to action after attending awareness-raising drama She

Annika Spalding // 22 December 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Love and 8

Liz Ely thinks new play 8 gives an intriguing insight into the battle for marriage equality, though it's somewhat lacking in inspiration

Liz Ely // 19 December 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 All singing, all dancing campaigning

A musical about a campaign for better asylum seeker rights may seem like unusual territory. Hazel Robertson finds that this humorous, tragic and stirring production is well worth the risk

Hazel Robertson // 15 November 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 The show that asks: "What do we hope for now?"

Declaring war on "the big boys", Motherland goes on a journey through gender with a sense of humour and social responsibility. Caitlin Hayward-Tapp finds it thoroughly thought-provoking

Caitlin Hayward-Tapp // 5 November 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Medea, but not as Euripides knew it

Charlotte Rowland finds that Rachael Stirling's powerful performance in this new version of Medea leads her to forgive its other faults

Charlotte Rowland // 31 October 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 A hard issue with a soft premise

The Soft of Her Palm promises to confront our expectations of domestic violence, but Shoshana Davidson finds it falls back on damaging and unhelpful stereotypes

Shoshana Davidson // 16 October 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Delhi delights in new Much Ado

The RSC sets Much Ado About Nothing in Delhi, with results that leave Katherine Wootton impressed

Katherine Wootton // 10 October 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Mary Stuart modernised

A new production of Mary Stuart glows with relevance, and Charlotte Rowland has only good words to say about it

Charlotte Rowland // 20 September 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Perfume, power and popular media

After a UK premiere of Ana Diosdado's Yours for the Asking, Eli Davies wonders if it's really what we're asking for

Eli Davies // 17 September 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Week Four

The largest arts festival in the world comes to an end! We review a few last shows from The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Various Authors // 31 August 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Week Three

As the Edinburgh Fringe Festival continues, we have another round-up of reviews

Various Authors // 24 August 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 To peep or not to peep

A new voyeuristic exhibition at the National Gallery has hit the headlines, inviting people to watch a naked woman. Ania Ostrowska has had enough

Ania Ostrowska // 20 August 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Week Two

Reviewers from The F-Word share their opinions in our second instalment considering shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Various Authors // 16 August 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Week One

During August, Edinburgh hosts the largest arts festival in the world. Throughout the month, we'll be reviewing shows that we think might be of interest to our readers; here are our impressions of the first shows we saw

Various Authors // 9 August 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 All that jazz

Jazz at Café Society celebrates the first desegregated jazz club in the USA. Eli Davies delights in its portrayal of strong female artists

Eli Davies // 30 July 2012

Categories: Theatre

 'Fair, tiny and only 17 years of age'

At the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Miriam Margolyes revives her acclaimed one woman show on his life and the women within it. Margolyes' love and passion for Dickens shines through the performance, but Laura Lammasniemi wonders if her satire of the man who symbolises Victorian misogyny is too gentle

Laura Lammasniemi // 15 July 2012

Categories: Theatre

 Claws for thought

With The Girl with the Iron Claws, The Wrong Crowd company has created a richly beautiful stage version of the old Norwegian fairytale. Greta Hughson ponders its meaning to a modern audience

Greta Hughson // 13 July 2012

Categories: Theatre

 Dead End Drive

The Sluts of Sutton Drive is a play about the problems faced by working-class women. Megan Stodel thinks it fails to engage the audience at all

Megan Stodel // 11 July 2012

Categories: Theatre

 Dreaming a different dream

By setting A Midsummer Night's Dream in a community of Travellers, the play is transformed. Megan Stodel considers how successful the Open Air Theatre's new interpretation is

Megan Stodel // 17 June 2012

Categories: Reviews, Theatre

 Her Naked Skin

Hazel Tsoi-Wiles reviews a production of Her Naked Skin, a suffragette romance which whisks the audience back to a time of protest on the street, activists smashing windows and police clamp-downs

Hazel Tsoi-Wiles // 23 December 2011

Categories: Theatre

 Penelope

Waiting for 20 years for Odysseus' return, Penelope is an emblem of marital fidelity and has always provided plenty of material for reinterpretations, feminist or otherwise. Kate McCarthy reviews the latest, which dumps the suitors in a dried out swimming pool

Kate McCarthy // 28 February 2011

Categories: Theatre

Women, Power & Politics: Now

Laura Nelson reviews this collection of short plays at London's Tricycle theatre

Laura Nelson // 17 July 2010

Categories: Theatre

Women, Power & Politics: Then

Kate McCarthy reviews a collection of short plays at the Tricycle

Kate McCarthy // 11 July 2010

Categories: Theatre

 Viva la vagina

Jessica Gjergji is blown away by a performance of The Vagina Monologues at the Bristol Old Vic

Jessica Gjergji // 4 July 2010

Categories: Theatre

Macbeth

Yasmin Eshref reviews a version of Macbeth set in the 1970s with an all-female cast

Yasmin Eshref // 26 May 2010

Categories: Theatre

 Feminism and Peter Pan

JM Barrie's creation Peter Pan has an enduring popularity. Allison McCarthy digs into the sexist and racist history of the play and novel, and how this has been addressed in modern adaptations

Allison McCarthy // 19 April 2009

Categories: Books, Films, Theatre

Her Naked Skin

Rebecca Lenkiewicz's take on the suffrage movement hinges on a clichéd story of forbidden love between seamstress Eve Douglas and Lady Celia Cain. Debi Withers is exasperated

debi withers // 7 September 2008

Categories: Theatre

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