Review: Krapp’s Last Tape, York Theatre Royal
This is as fine a production of Krapp’s Last Tape as you are ever likely to see, which is...
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Theatre Review: Alone in Berlin, York Theatre Royal
More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’ Written in 1919, it has...
Read MoreFestive Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty, York Theatre Royal
Ask anyone in York what makes their Theatre Royal pantomimes so special and they’ll sum it up in two words: Berwick Kaler. The long-standing Dame/writer/director/secret weapon/magic ingredient had become the heart and soul...
Read MoreTheatre Review: The Night Watch, York Theatre Royal
There’s a line right at the start of Hattie Naylor’s faithful adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel The Night Watch that’s taken straight from the book, and it’s the key to the piece. It’s 1947 and Kay, lonely and deracinated,...
Read MoreTheatre Review: Malory Towers, York Theatre Royal
Dear Mummy and Daddy, I’m not quite sure what to make of my first term here at Malory Towers. It is very big and some of us whose desks are at the side can’t see everything that happens in the classroom. And it does seem odd...
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