Category: Theatre Reviews

June 22, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, June 7 9.5/10 Sheridan Harbridge’s Blanche flutters around Stanley like a moth around a flame. Hers is not a fey, winsome Blanche, but one who’ll fight and hope and dream until she is consumed. Although Harbridge’s craft is not entirely invisible early on, any sense of a…

June 21, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, June 3 8/10 Nina Raine’s play doesn’t just ask us questions, it cross-examines us. Is morality innate? Are there degrees of rape? If you love someone, must you also love their flaws? Must you experience the same traumatic incident to truly empathise? Cross-examination, Tim tells us, is a…

June 16, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, May 27 7/10 How to die? With grace? Rare. With dignity? Rarer. And attempting it with courage or good humour may fall short of the intent – regret being more likely. Playwright Patricia Cornelius wonders aloud about how we all die in Do Not Go Gentle, taking…