Theatre
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 - 1 Comment
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
Arts & Culture, Theatre - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 17:28 - 0 Comments
Theatre: The Families of Lockerbie
A new play has caused international controversy by revisiting the Lockerbie tragedy through the prism of fictionalised relatives of the victims. It's a risky strategy and one that calls for the most delicate of balancing acts. Against his initial apprehensions and reservations, a sceptical Hicham Yezza is won-over.
