Category: Top plays of 2013
Review: Handbagged, Tricycle Theatre
“We are both Britain” Moira Buffini’s Handbagged started life as a short play as part of the…
Review: Iron, Old Red Lion Theatre
“It’s a painful thing, remembering…” …and at times, it is a near-painful thing to watch Bold Over’s…
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe
“I shall do thee mischief in the wood” It’s taken me a while to get around to…
Review: Grounded, Gate Theatre
“A plane with no cockpit, a bird with no eyes” Watching Lucy Ellinson perform is probably one…
Review: Edward II, National Theatre
“I will have Gaveston, and you shall know what danger ’tis to stand against your king” Now…
Review: Armstrong’s War, Finborough Theatre
“I wanted something to be true but it wasn’t” In the rehab unit of St Vincent’s Hospital,…
Review: The Sound of Music, Open Air Theatre
“But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past there must have been a moment of truth” Despite never…
Review: The Color Purple, Menier Chocolate Factory
“Somebody gonna love you” The Broadway production of the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel The Color…
Review: The Amen Corner, National Theatre
“Ain’t nobody born that infallible” Reader, I ovated. It is a rare occasion indeed that I actually…
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