Blogs about Theatre

Welcome to my theatre newsletter, in which I offer notes and reflections on some of what I’ve been up to in the last seven days, both in and out of the theatre. I feel that …

It’s the hottest day on record, the south coast swelters as we all look for a way to cool off… and on stage at Chichester Festival Theatre it is hotter still as their big summer …

MEN BEHAVING RIDICULOUSLY The lord of Navarre and three nobles have resolved to retreat and study for three years, eschewing female company: so even the princess suing for land has to be encamped outside the …

Inspired by a 2022 visit to Matthew Bourne’s Car Man, Chickenshed’s latest production is a modernised adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen, set in a refugee camp ten years from now. Having already lost their homes, and… …

Foreign Affairs present Christina Kettering’s Black Swans at the Omnibus Theatre, a cautionary tale about sisterhood as much as AI “Rosie is not your enemy, she’s here to help” The encroachment of artificial intelligence into …