Inter Alia is a new play by Suzie Miller, the writer that brought us Prima Facie. This new play keeps the legal system at its heart again but this time the focus is on Jessica Parks, a female judge in the Crown court who is juggling her busy professional life along with being a wife and a mother to her
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Hex is The National Theatre’s latest musical offering. It is a new musical based on the story of Sleeping Beauty. This tells of Fairy who is unable to fly, much to the mockery of the other High Fairies. In the woods she meets Smith, an aid to the Queen who has just given birth to a baby girl who refuses
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Translations – National Theatre By Brian Friel (Review by guest blogger Daniel Bennett) ‘What happens when a land is robbed of its language?’ This is the question National Theatre runs alongside its promotional material for the renowned Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Translations. It’s a fair question, but it is deceptively simple. It suggests the play deals with a single theme;
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The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey opened at the National Theatre last night (27th July). 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the background to this piece. The play tells of a group of people living in a tenement building. Act 1 opens in the lead up to the Easter Rising and spends time building up the characters
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The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time is a play I have been meaning to see for ages…especially as I read and loved the novel by Mark Haddon and I had heard so many positive things about the stage adaptation by Simon Stephens. This story tells of Christopher Boone,
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