Results tagged “theatre”

STAGE
Race
Hampstead Theatre
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
David Mamet's muscular prose commands the stage in a world-weary no-holds-barred dissection of race in America.

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Di And Viv And Rose
Hampstead Theatre
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Great performances and goodwill paper over any cracks in Amelia Bullmore's lively ode to female friendship.

By Daniel Sutherland

There's likely to be a video game on every child's list to Santa but no matter how advanced computer graphics become it will never foster the imagination like the theatre - or that's what writer Philip Ridley thinks.

And he wants to demonstrate this idea with his new play, Feathers In The Snow, which makes its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse next week.

A converted church will house a complete re-interpretation of the terror tale of Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley's iconic novel has been transformed into a much more "abstract adaptation" for its debut on the stage at The Space Theatre, in Westferry Road.

STAGE
Love And Information
Royal Court
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Caryl Churchill's kaleidoscope exploration of the whip-crack of modern life is exhilarating, breathless and rich.