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Review: Troilus and Cressida

We’re privileged to see this rarely-performed work moulded by OFS. A play for our times.

Published September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Rockets and Blue Lights

A paean to endurance, love, and wrenched freedoms.

Published July 22, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Love Love Love

Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.

Published July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Amadeus

In the most spectacular production imaginable, Lucian Msamati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival Adam Gillen.

Published July 16, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Les Blancs

A superb realization of Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished masterpiece - a classic of Ibsenite proportions

Published July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Small Island

A reboot for the future, a passport for change.

Published June 21, 2020June 22, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: From Henry VI Part 3 to Romeo and Juliet

Join and revel – they’re not anywhere near ended.

Published June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Madness of George III

This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.

Published June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Coriolanus

A Coriolanus memorable for politics sinewed with personal forces: an active interrogation of democracy. And in Josie Rourke’s production Tom Hiddleston’s someone riven by intimations of his true self

Published June 4, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Sound of Music

Phenomenal singing all round. A more than solid recommendation for that alone.

Published May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Richard II

Do see this.

Published May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Skin Game

Treat this as a wonderful premiere you’ve not had to stir for.

Published May 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Drawing the Line

Terrific, a harrowing education.

Published April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Wonderland

Outstanding. Surely the definitive study of the dignity of physical labour, and breaking of its amity.

Published April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Phnom Penh – 40 Years On From The Khmer Rouge

An extraordinarily assured debut

Published April 9, 2020April 12, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Afterplay

Miraculously-attuned. A wafer-thin but absolutely genuine slice of Chekhov. Do see it.

Published March 15, 2020March 16, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Nora

Stef Smith’s brilliant riff on Ibsen’s original is revelatory

Published February 29, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Tin Drum

Nico Holonics’ blaze-through avatar is unlikely to be surpassed.

Published February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: An Inspector Calls

Still an outstanding production we might take for granted.

Published February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Talk

Mark Wilson and his team triumph in a whisper, and a restraining cry.

Published February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Welkin

Already a contender for one of the best plays of 2020.

Published January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Henry VI

The most effective condensation of the pith of the trilogy we’re likely to see.

Published January 8, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Swive

A Hilliard rather than Holbein, it’s the velocity of Elizabeth’s survival that enthrals

Published December 21, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Christmas Carol

The most original, potent and uplifting Christmas Carol I’ve ever seen

Published December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Hunger

An exemplary, scrupulous production so starkly contemporary, it makes Hunger contemporary forever

Published December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Candida

Convinces here far more than any production I’ve seen.

Published December 6, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Richard III

This production could draw out the poison of being dead serious in terminal bursts of laughter

Published November 29, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: My Brilliant Friend Parts One and Two

Cusack and McCormack give the performances of their lives

Published November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Hansard

A masterfully conceived vehicle to stalk politics now

Published November 8, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: A History of Water in the Middle East

Hugely absorbing it’s entertaining too.

Published October 25, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Frankenstein

There’s a clean sharp fusion between these two writers that heralds something special.

Published October 15, 2019October 16, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Youth Without God

We’re launched into a necessary world

Published September 28, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Amsterdam

Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.

Published September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Preludes

I’m hooked. We need more of this.

Published September 12, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters

Don’t take your Nan to this show.

Published August 18, 2019 by Didi Craze

Review: Kemp’s Jig

A wonderfully told tale of a forgotten man in the history of Elizabethan theatre

Published August 15, 2019 by Donald Stewart

Review: Hitler’s Tasters

You will stumble out at the end completely bowled over by the power of this play

Published August 4, 2019 by Kate Saffin

Review: Taboo

A chilling glimpse into the world of a little known but influential woman from the Nazi era.

Published August 4, 2019 by Kate Saffin

Review: Hair

Outstanding

Published July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Mary Stuart

It must be seen

Published July 4, 2019July 5, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Scarlett Fever: The Great Southern Search

Old Hollywood meets tribal acting in an engaging piece of physical theatre.

Published June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 by Nikki Muller

Review: Conflict of Interest

Fascinating unearthing of a family at war - on both sides

Published June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 by Chloe Alexander

Review: The Duchess and the Stripper

Wallis Simpson goes to Blaze's.

Published June 10, 2019June 11, 2019 by Guy Picot

Review: Further Education

A strong, committed production of a very fine comedy

Published June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Henry V

The enormous energy Sarah Amankwah brings proclaims greatness in the making

Published May 31, 2019June 10, 2019 by Simon Jenner

Review: Paul Duncan McGarrity: A Practical Guide to Storming Castles

The most entertaining archaeologist since Indiana Jones

Published May 25, 2019 by Joe Angella

Review: All I See Is You

Funny, upsetting and with just the right amount of teenage angst - it’s 1960’s UK. This is a coming of age story where queer men are never truly permitted to come of age.

Published May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 by Emma Plotkin

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