What was going on? A near empty Drama Theatre for the opening of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Here was a play that, like Death of a Salesman and Waiting for Godot, sent a shock-wave through 20th-century theatre, yet was the only show I saw in January that was not…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Kings Cross Theatre, January 28 5/10 It could seem a stream-of-consciousness ramble, but it’s not. It’s a finely calibrated monologue about one’s sense of self. Lady Grey talks about primary school “show-and-tell sessions”, and in a way Will Eno’s 40-minutte play is show-and-tell made into a piece of theatre –…
York Theatre, January 25. 8.5/10 Heather’s Rose’s 2016 novel, The Museum of Modern Love, being vast in scope, elaborate in structure and intensely internalised, seemed to defy transposition to the stage. But playwright Tom Holloway has succeeded by smoothing out the structural twists and snaking subplots, making the pervasive sadness…