The Jermyn Street Theatre – small as it is – has been rocking Howard Brenton’s latest play Cancelling Socrates, set in Ancient Greece and dealing with the last days and condemnation for sacrilege of the philosopher Socrates.
‘The camera captures Benedict Wong’s perfectly nuanced performance’: THE ARREST OF AI WEIWEI – Hampstead Theatre (Online review)
Howard Brenton’s docu-drama about the harassment of the Chinese artist is imbued with fresh urgency and relevance.
‘Watching this opened my eyes to an interesting part of British Empire history’: DRAWING THE LINE – Hampstead Theatre ★★★★ (Online review)
Judge Cyril Radcliffe has been ordered by the British government to go and map out the territories dividing up India as the empire begins to close down. A somewhat daunting prospect for somebody who had never been to India.
NEWS: Hampstead Theatre will stream series of hit productions for free
Hampstead Theatre, in partnership with The Guardian, is going to stream a series of hit productions from its digital archive for free.
Text of the Day: Jude
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Jude at Hampstead Theatre
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Edward Hall’s production of Howard Brenton’s latest play Jude.
‘In the end this is more comedy than tragedy’: JUDE – Hampstead Theatre
Jude, Howard Brenton’s new cerebral tragi-comedy about a Syrian refugee’s Oxford dreams, is just too gnomic.
‘It’s a storming performance from Isabella Nefar’: JUDE – Hampstead Theatre ★★★★
Howard Brenton’s new play Jude is a deliberate echo of Thomas Hardy’s darkest work, Jude the Obscure: an updated riff on his angry theme of how passionate genius in humble people is stifled and thwarted by society.
‘It could be any Hampstead media power-couple falling out today’: CREDITORS – Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★
The artistic love affair between August Strindberg’s ghost, playwright Howard Brenton and director Tom Littler continues to bear strange fruit in Creditors at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
‘It’s a very exciting, action-packed production’: Bethan Cullinane stars in The Shadow Factory at NST City
Actress Bethan Cullinane chatted to Love London Love Culture about starring in The Shadow Factory at NST City.
NEWS: Trevor Nunn, Howard Brenton & a gender-shifting Dorian Gray headline Jermyn Street’s 25th anniversary
Jermyn Street Theatre launches into its 25th anniversary year with a season of work that brings together celebrated theatrical figures Trevor Nunn and Howard Brenton with a rich array of exciting new talent.
‘A charming watch’: THE SHADOW FACTORY – Southampton ★★★
The Shadow Factory showcases the stupendous technological capability of this new theatre. It gives us a taster of what can be shown here and this in itself excites. A fitting inaugural production from a theatre for the people of Southampton.
‘Variety & bite & human failings’: THE SHADOW FACTORY – Southampton ★★★★
Howard Brenton, a clear eye and eloquent historical storyteller, has immersed himself in the facts about the story of the Spitfires in The Shadow Factory and found an imaginative intuition.
MISS JULIE – Jermyn Street Theatre ❤❤❤❤
Howard Brenton’s adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie is sharp and observant in which the tension is carefully built up in Tom Littler’s production.
MISS JULIE – Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★★★
Tom Littler directs, and is admirably unafraid to start leisurely, almost lazy, with desultory kitchen conversation, a meal eaten, long pauses and passing remarks between valet and cook.
NEWS: David Walliams’ Billionaire Boy, Isango Ensemble & Women in Power in Southampton 2018 launch season
Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Samuel Hodges, today announces their new season for 2018. This announcement also marks the opening of the brand new NST City, NST’s newly built theatre in Southampton’s city centre. Their 2018 season of work will be spread across both the new venue and their original home, NST Campus. The season is comprised of four world …
THE BLINDING LIGHT – Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★★
Howard Brenton gives us a barn-storming role for the actor playing Strindberg – in this case, Jasper Britton – and the women who appear in his life.
THE BLINDING LIGHT – Jermyn Street Theatre
Howard Brenton’s latest takes a scalpel to the collapsing mind of playwright August Strindberg.
THE BLINDING LIGHT – Jermyn Street Theatre
Howard Brenton’s latest takes a scalpel to the collapsing mind of playwright August Strindberg.
THE BLINDING LIGHT – Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★★★
This is a terrific coup for director Tom Littler’s debut as artistic director of the little Jermyn Theatre, now becoming a full producing-house. He commissioned this extraordinary 90-minuter from no less a writer than Howard Brenton.
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