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Review: National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017)
At only 33, Australian actor/director Simon Stone is a name that most diehard theatre lovers will know. If you haven’t, be prepared to hear a lot more about him because his latest production for...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Peter Pan (2017)
115 years after J.M. Barrie created him, Peter Pan is still an icon of popular culture with a new film, television appearance or stage play seemingly coming out about every year. If you count all the...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Young Marx (2018)
Karl Marx. A name that inspires equal amounts of fervent respect and spiteful hatred, depending on which group you’re talking to. A genius of philosophy and economic analysis, there can’t be many...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
When it’s tempting to moan about how bad we’ve got it with our politicians, it pays to flick over the pages of history for some perspective. Written for the masses, Julius Caesar is ample proof that...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)
Tennessee Williams’ play, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955, explores the nature of truth, lies, death, family and alcohol. For their latest performance, in what is shaping up to be a very good year...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018)
I can only imagine how daunting it must be to contemplate adapting the Scottish play for stage and then wonder how on earth you could have anything more to add to the mountain of interpretations that...
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Review: National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
When one of the finest actors of his generation leads in a play by the greatest writer in the history of the English language the result is, unsurprisingly, amazing. National Theatre Live is back for...
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Review: National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
In 2008 Lehman Brothers – the fourth largest investment bank in the USA – collapsed. It was the largest bankruptcy in US history. This was a turning point in both the Global Financial Crisis and...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Fleabag (2019)
As part of the National Theatre Live program, the original stage play of Fleabag has arrived. Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and performed the stage play in 2013, winning various awards at the time, and...
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Review: National Theatre Live: Present Laughter (2019)
Noël Coward may have written the comedy Present Laughter as a parody of his own fame in the early 20th century, but his play could just as easily be a commentary on growing up online in the 21st...
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