The view is quite different now
Robert Tanitch reviews A View from the Bridge at The Young Vic, London SE1 In ancient times tragedies were always about great men and women, kings, queens, generals, figures of myth, whose fatal flaws ...
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12 to 16 year old amateur actors on a professional stage
Robert Tanitch reviews The Malcontent at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London SE1 This new indoor, candle-lit, timber-framed replica of a Jacobean theatre, which shares the same site as Shakespeare’s Glob ...
Blazing performance in Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the Orange Prize winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is the directorial debut of the Nigerian/British novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele-Thomas. Biyi Bandele w ...
Go jump in the Lac and forget Petipa
Robert Tanitch reviews Lac at London Coliseum There have been so many interpretations of Swan Lake. As the present title suggests, Lac is not for purists. Jean-Christophe Maillot, artistic director of ...