Theatre

Theatre

• Small Island - theatre review

  

  The novelist Andrea Levy sadly died in February 2019.  The National Theatre’s adaptation of her novel ‘Small Island’ is a wonderful tribute to her commitment to telling the stories of Jamaicans in Britain.  Set in the 1940s, this is an important play for our times. 

• May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

  

  William Alderson’s “magnificent” poem May Days is to be performed by actors in aid of the Grenfell Tower victims to commemorate the anniversary of the disaster

• Sylvia - theatre review

  

  A sold-out annex theatre was treated to Jacqueline Mulhallen’s moving, informative and funny performance, Sylvia, the radical Suffragette leader

• The Acting Class review - A necessary declaration of intent from working-class actors

  

  Without the bank of mum and dad as support, opportunities in the arts are becoming non-existent. This new documentary is a cry of anger against this class injustice

• Theatre review: Richard III

  

  The Arcola Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare‘s play is an unsettling experience

• Class in the drama class: actors and privilege

  

  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne explain why they are making a new documentary, The Acting Class

• Theatre review: Othello

  

  The Globe's production of Shakespeare's play is tense and compelling, writes Tom Griffiths

• Sylvia: a play about Sylvia Pankhurst

  

  An updated version of Jacqueline Mulhallen’s one-woman play is currently on tour

• Theatre review: Hedda Gabler

  

  Ibsen's play isn’t feminist, but the role is still one of the theatre’s most exciting female characters – brutal, mad and vengeful

• Dario Fo will continue to inspire us

  

  Actor, playwright, theatre manger, activist: Dario Fo's legacy will live on, writes Jackie Mulhallen

• Paul Robeson: erased from history - podcast

  

  Portraying Paul Robeson on the 40th anniversary of his death, actor Tayo Aluko talks to us about this prodigiously talented singer, actor and socialist

• Soviet theatre – the revolution in theatre design

  

  The exhibition showcases 150 designs for Russian theatre from 1913-33 from a range of well-known artists, such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, Rodchenko Stepanova and Exter

• The morality of the poor: 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers'

  

  Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries you headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget

• Class act: Engels classic brought to the stage

  In the 1840s Engels wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’, based upon his experiences in Manchester. Ben Metters reviews a contemporary theatrical take on this political classic