Read more about the article REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida (2021)
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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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)
Adam Best as Pato and Orla Fitzgerald as Maureen (Photo: Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)

The Beauty Queen of Leenane... comes on like a village Romeo and Juliet. "Me? A whore? I dream."Maureen Boy (40+) meets Girl (40). They more than click. Love looks set…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Bat Out of Hell, the tour New Theatre Oxford  (2021)    <br>LONDON 2023 dates here for the Meat Loaf musical!
Glenn Adamson as Strat and Martha Kirby as Raven (Photo: Chris Davis)

REVIEW: Bat Out of Hell, the tour New Theatre Oxford (2021)
LONDON 2023 dates here for the Meat Loaf musical!

Bat out of Hell Then I'm down in the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun, Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike, And I think…

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LONDON 2023 dates here for the Meat Loaf musical!