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IN HIS first two seasons at Bard in the Botanics, Gordon Barr was delighted to direct his favourite plays. Now, 25 years on, ...
It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...
Fatoum’s appeal for peace and humanity had nothing in common with an unprofessional provocation. Rather, it was in keeping ...
It opens with a nod to The Handmaid’s Tale — a dour chorus of men in dark suits and women in nun-like uniforms chanting solemn psalms — and closes with an ecstatic party, the whole theatre rocking to ...
There was a special episode of Blackadder commissioned for the millennium celebrations, in which Edmund travels back in time ...
Read our review of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre, London: Nicholas Hytner’s fizzy revival of the ...
Read our review of Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, starring Susannah Fielding and JJ Feild, now in performances at ...
Nicholas Hytner’s acrobatic, erotic, playfully queered version of Shakespeare’s Dream seems even more delightful now than it ...
I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…” Like Nick Bottom (and the lovers ...
I gave five stars to Nicholas Hytner’s “immersive” production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His achievement was to take ...
The choreographer and former 'Strictly' judge on TV ageism and sexism, coaching Whitney Houston's on her dance moves, and her work on a gender-flipped 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' ...
Nicholas Hytner’s exuberant 2019 take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream was simply too much fun to leave to the history books: ...