We may not have been able to see our fellow digital audience members but we knew they were there, making The Dumb Waiter feel like a communal event.
‘Provides some moments of genuine theatrical magnetism’: SOLARIS – Edinburgh ★★★★
Dealing with troubling questions about human interaction, the Lyceum’s adaptation of Solaris is – like all the best science fiction – not really about alien planets but about our own world.
THE SEAGULL – Lyric Hammersmith ★★★
Simon Stephens’ version makes no bones about how an obsession for fame can lead to ruin, hell and damnation or all three. Adelayo Adedayo’s Nina is burning to be a ‘celebrity’, idolising Nicholas Gleaves’ driven novelist, Boris.
THE BRINK – Orange Tree Theatre
One man’s psychological problems make for a powerful thriller that digs deep into our current anxieties.
HERONS – Lyric Hammersmith
Unmoving revival of Simon Stephens’ teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth to trendy directorial gimmicks.