Anna Bella Eema, Arcola, review: ‘a ghost story for three bodies with three voices’
UK premiere of Lisa D’Amour’s play is a gripping account of love, loss and survival
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Hamlet, Hackney Empire, review: RSC’s African restaging brings the energy of youth to the tragedy
The Royal Shakespeare Company come to Hackney with a West African-influenced production that features their first use of a black actor in the title role
The Unburied: The Saint of Darkness, play review, Rose Lipman Building: ‘song, movement, light and poetry’
The ‘Mother Theresa meets Greek mythology’ plot may be a tad obtuse, but this memorable piece of dark, poetic theatre makes the most of its unusual staging
Insignificance, Arcola Theatre, theatre review: ‘Bailey Johnson plays Marilyn with speedily unwinding energy’
This production of the witty, contemplative 1982 play brings together thinly-veiled versions of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio
Proof, Courtyard Theatre, review: ‘open-throated, no holds barred performances’
The intensity of the performances – particularly during the fights – gives visceral power to this otherwise stripped-back production of David Auburn’s Tony Award-winning play
Richard III, Arcola, theatre review: the bovver boy royal in a bare bones production
This enjoyable staging of Shakespeare’s historic tragedy makes the most of its stark setting and a “performance on fire”
The Plague, Arcola Theatre, review: an incisive adaptation of Camus’ classic
Morgana Edwards took her seat for a sharp, direct staging of the classic novel which, unfortunately, could not be more timely
Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, review: method and madness
The N1 theatre stages the tragedy with a variety of bells & whistles that make for a stylish production
The Lower Depths, Arcola, review: farcical situations and tragic moments
The Dalston theatre hosts a harsh, passionate and ultimately remorseless production of Maxim Gorky’s play