Theatre

Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, May 13, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Theatre | Review: Cymbeline, South Sudan Theatre Company (Shakespeare’s Globe)

A scene from Cymbeline, performed by South Sudanese Theatre Company at Shakespera Globe (Photo: Ellie Kurtlz)

Part of the 'Globe to Globe' programme of 37 plays in 37 languages, the SSTC's Cymbeline is heavy with historical and political parallels. Ceasefire's Derek Oakley is impressed.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Friday, December 16, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Arts & Culture | How to remember Stalin: ‘The Collaborators’ (National Theatre) and ‘Building the Revolution’ (Royal Academy)

A Soviet-nostalgia revival seems to be under way, with John Hodge's new play 'The Collaborators' and the Royal Academy's new exhibition on Soviet Art and Architecture. Musab Younis, Ceasefire's deputy editor, reviews.

New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:30 - 0 Comments

Theatre | Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Nottingham Playhouse)

Malte Ringer finds Nottingham Playhouse’s recent production of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui both impressive and timely.

New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Friday, July 22, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Theatre Fit for Purpose

Watching Royal Court young writer Catherine O'Shea's new play, Adam Elliott-Cooper is confronted with the most unsettling aspects of how the British state polices its borders.

New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments

Theatre ‘Between the Fleeting Words’: celebrating Mahmoud Darwish

This Saturday 5th March, will see the première of a new production of 'Between the fleeting words", a play that revisits the Palestinian national tragedy through the prism of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry. In an exclusive piece, the director, Ahmed Masoud, explains the importance of art as a form of resistance.

Theatre - Sunday, September 12, 2010 6:06 - 0 Comments

Theatre Review: Clybourne Park (The Royal Court)

Bruce Norris's new play, currently showing at the Royal Court theatre in London, examines the intersection between race and property by focusing on one Chicago house over a 50-year period. It's an intriguing set-up, but does it work? Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, went to find out.

Arts & Culture, Theatre - Wednesday, September 1, 2010 16:14 - 0 Comments

Theatre review: Earthquakes in London/The Prince of Homburg

In this week's theatre, Gareth King reviews 'Earthquakes in London' at the National, and 'The Prince of Homburg' at the Donmar. The two productions might be equal in their ambitions but only one clearly delivers on its promise.

Arts & Culture, Theatre - Monday, August 23, 2010 20:56 - 0 Comments

Theatre Review: The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre)

The Great Game is a mini-cycle of plays that is intense, powerful and evocative. As it enters the last week of its London run, before a move accross the Atlantic, Lucy Shaw went to see it.

Arts & Culture, Theatre - Sunday, August 22, 2010 21:08 - 0 Comments

Theatre Review: All My Sons (Apollo Theatre)

The latest production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons is a "revival of a revival", by the same team that produced its previous National Theatre staging in 2000. It is a tale of two grieving parents (David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker) of a World War II pilot assumed dead in combat seven years previously, who have to face up to the truth of their past over the course of a single day. The production has received impressively unanimous critical acclaim. Gareth King went to see it and discovered why.

Arts & Culture, Theatre - Thursday, August 19, 2010 0:04 - 0 Comments

Theatre: ‘The Duchess of Malfi’

"After seeing a man strangle a woman with a telephone cord he then dragged me into a room, locked the door behind us, he then sat me in a chair, took off my mask and stared into my face. I had actually paid for this experience, and this is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping would happen." Catherine Oshea reviews the 'Duchess of Malfi', the latest offering in 'immersive' theatre production