Trailing clouds of glory from the 2018 Fringe, David Ireland’s Ulster American has returned to the Traverse with a bang. If it is not quite as good as some have said, it is still impressive – and certainly is impressively nasty.
‘An irresistible play, in a triumphant production’: ULSTER AMERICAN – Edinburgh Fringe
David Ireland’s play Ulster American, about a Hollywood actor arriving in Britain to play the lead in a play by an Ulster Protestant writer, is a riot.
WOYZECK – Old Vic
It’s a radical rewrite. Gone is a lot of the mystery and the poetry of the original. In their place is a contemporary, accessible version which emphasises realistic psychology (a lot of backstory detail) and social realism (a lot of childcare detail).
PHOTOS & VIDEO: Inside the rehearsal room for Woyzeck starring John Boyega
Rehearsal photos and show trailer have been released for Jack Thorne’s new version of Georg Buchner’s 1913 classic Woyzeck, in which Star Wars’ John Boyega takes the title role.
PHOTOS & VIDEO: Inside the rehearsal room for Woyzeck starring John Boyega
Rehearsal photos and show trailer have been released for Jack Thorne’s new version of Georg Buchner’s 1913 classic Woyzeck, in which Star Wars’ John Boyega takes the title role.
Saying farewell to Tim Pigott-Smith, The Report & Woyzeck
The news of Tim Pigott-Smith’s passing at the age of 70 yesterday was a terrible shock, not least because he was still in a rich creative vein – a tour of Death of a Salesman was scheduled for next month.
X – Royal Court Theatre
Alistair McDowall’s follow up to his big 2014 hit Pomona is less dazzling, but more emotionally desolate and ambiguous.
X – Royal Court
We are in the melamine mess-room of a space pod on the dead, black planet Pluto, with a crew of five. Unless one of them is a delusion of the nervy second-in-command Gilda (Jessica Raine). The captain is Darrell D’Silva, always a treat, especially here since he is the only one who remembers living trees and birdsong back on now-blighted earth.