REVIEW: Jerusalem, Apollo Theatre (2022)
Mark Rylance's extraordinary performance! “What is this black place?” “T'is England, my boy.” Johnny "Rooster" Byron. Mary Rylance as Johnny "Rooater" Byron (Photo: Simon Annand) May 1st is here again and…
Ash Hunter as Heathcliff and Katy Owens as Isabella Linton (Photo: Steve Tanner)
REVIEW: Wuthering Heights, Lyttelton National Theatre (2022)
The figure with the whip is the West Yorkshire Moor itself, turned into a character in this powerful adaptation of Emily Bronte's masterpiece. But the hearts of people of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are lashed as much by their own emotions as their bodies are by the tempest. Hell is all too readily other people. Love hurts, Hope deludes, Happiness is rare, Death is all around.
Clare Perkins as Alvita (Photo: Marc Brenner)
REVIEW: The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre (2021)
Yet large chunks of her Control Your Man toolkit are given to Alvita to voice without apparent irony or comment. Marry for money, Treat them mean, Deceive them, Shame them, Make them work hard at sex, (which for her appears to be exclusively heteronormative). Above all, Take control. She nearly loses control over the Fifth husband, but finally breaks him and takes it back.