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The Lehman Trilogy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- National Theatre
- 14th Feb, 2023
The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season.
All of Us
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 6th Aug, 2022
All of Us is an attack on welfare state reform.
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 1st Apr, 2022
You wait ages for one Hamlet to come along.
The Lehman Trilogy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 14th Jul, 2018
One of the early factors that contributed to the massive success of the Lehman Brothers – the power they had in the US, their huge business growth and its eventual demise – was…
Macbeth
- Review
- ★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 9th Mar, 2018
There’s a moral sense of the inevitable in Macbeth.
Network
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 15th Nov, 2017
Here we have a play, based on a film, about television, with heavy use of video (live, recorded and even outside broadcasting), incorporating social media, onstage DJs and audie…
Saint George and the Dragon
- Review
- ★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2017
For those who don’t know much about mid-20th century Russian literature – I’m sure there must be one or two – satirical playwright Evgeny Schwartz’s 1943 play, Drakon …
Oslo
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre / The Harold Pinter Theatre
- 19th Sep, 2017
The challenge with any dramatisation of an historic moment is in trying to appeal to the people for whom the event just ‘rings a bell’ right up to those whose lives were dire…
Follies
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- West End
- National Theatre
- 7th Sep, 2017
British audiences have had to wait a long time to finally figure out what Sondheim’s backstage musical Follies is.
Mosquitoes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 27th Jul, 2017
Let’s get something out of the way - Olivia Colman is darn good at this acting malarkey isn’t she? It might actually even be illegal to use her name without the prefix ‘Natio…
Common
- Review
- ★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 8th Jun, 2017
Within the first five or so minutes of Common, a large chorus of people wearing shrubs, trees and animal heads over their faces chant menacingly, a woman in her fineries introduc…
Consent
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 5th Apr, 2017
Decouple any romantic notion of sex as being the physical demonstration of love and what is it other than just an act to satiate a desire for power, ownership, closeness, or to m…
Peter Pan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Multiple Venues
- 3rd Dec, 2016
There must be little more that can raise the spirits of young or old than the idea of flying free through the skies.
The Red Barn
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- National Theatre
- 21st Oct, 2016
If you think The Red Barn will be a nice relaxing audience experience think again and then have another think.
Amadeus
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 27th Oct, 2016
“Why is Opera important? Because it’s real-er than any play”.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- London Fringe
- National Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2016
Combining the bawdy naughtiness of St Trinian’s, the desire to escape sobriety, language and depiction of true Scottishness of Trainspotting, with beautiful choral harmonies and …
Young Chekhov: Three-play day
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 5th Aug, 2016
Spending a full day (11 hours from first curtain up to last curtain call) watching three of Chekhov’s early plays (hence the ‘Young’ of the title) may not sound like the most fun…
The Deep Blue Sea
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 11th Jul, 2016
With its clipped accents, simmering tension, undulating music and themes of mental anguish and sexual tension, Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is quintessentially old-school…
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 28th May, 2016
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart.
The Threepenny Opera
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 3rd Jul, 2016
A common preconception of Brecht’s work is that his political views, his ‘anti-theatre’ style and the didactic tag that precedes any conversation about it, creates theatre that s…
The Suicide
- Review
- ★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 15th Apr, 2016
Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman’s original script for The Suicide was seen as such a strong satirical attack on the Communist Russian Government that it was branded ‘dangero…
Cleansed
- Review
- ★★★★
- Cal Kenny
- London Fringe
- National Theatre
- 11th Mar, 2016
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is a provocative, invasive and deeply discomforting piece of theatre, one that dazzles and disgusts in equal measure.
Waste
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 6th Feb, 2016
We find the notion of the waste of anything in life shameful, if not sinful – removing, as it does, any idea of success or achievement by focusing instead on what could or shou…
A Taste of Honey
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- London Fringe
- National Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2014
It was 1958 that saw Sharagh Delaney’s first play hit the stage, and it isn’t hard to imagine how totally stupefied the contemporary audience must have been.
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