Read more about the article REVIEW: Trouble in Butetown, Donmar Warehouse (2023)
Bethan Mary-James as Peggy, Sarah Parish as Gwyneth, Ifan Huw Dafydd as Patsy, Rita Bernard-Shaw as Connie, Samuel Adewunmi as Nate, Zephhryn Taitte as Norman and Ellie Mae Siama as Georgina (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Trouble in Butetown, Donmar Warehouse (2023)

Engaging play about 1940s Tiger Bay "The first one will put hairs on your chest.  The next one will make the hairs fall out!"Norman about the strong potcheen Bethan Mary-James as…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Othello, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre (2022)
Giles Terera as Othello and Rosy McEwen as Desdemona (Photo: Myah Jeffers)

REVIEW: Othello, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre (2022)

The Brutalism of Othello "Farewell the tranquil mind. "Othello Giles Tarter as Othello and Paul Hilton as Iago. (Photo: Myah Jeffers) Clint Dyer may have been thinking a classical stage…

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James McArdle as Macbeth and Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth

REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida (2021)

What Yaël Farber has constructed is a Macbeth full of action and visual, visceral excitement. Still moments are rare as there is almost always something to watch.  Along with the audience are the three Weird Sisters (Diane Fletcher, Valerie Lilley and Maureen Hibbert) who watch from the back of the smoky stage throughout the play when they are not speaking their ominously accurate predictions.  The programme explains that the histories of the Wyrd sisters "are a reformed patchwork of myths and narratives…. who hold all destinies in their hands."

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