12 October 2016
No’s Knife at the Old Vic
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
In one sense, it’s the ultimate indulgence to a craving no-one asked for. I don’t mean “ban experiment; bring on the potboilers”, I mean that this production feels irrelevant, and …
02 September 2016
Groundhog Day at the Old Vic
By Jordan Morrissey // Theatre (London)
It is always difficult to adapt something that is as ingrained in popular culture as the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, particularly when such a film’s very title and premise have …
08 December 2015
Barbarians at the Young Vic
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
It is rare a director is so sympathetic to their chosen text; therefore, remember Liz Stevenson’s name. Too often a classic work is smothered by conservatism and theatrical brocade—this production …
19 September 2015
Future Conditional at the Old Vic
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
I have always hated monographs that moonlight as plays or novels or paintings, though I have to make an exception for Future Conditional. It is so unabashed in its stance …
31 May 2015
High Society at the Old Vic
By Oliver Simmonds // Theatre (London)
What a turnaround. It is not often that a show can improve so much between its Acts. From the first Act’s close, it seemed like High Society was an extremely …
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