Great night at English National Opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Akhnaten at London Coliseum Philip Grass’s extraordinary, monumental yet minimalist masterpiece is given an outstanding mythical, sensory and ballsy production by EN ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Why not perform the play Jean Anouilh wrote?
Robert Tanitch reviews Welcome Home, Captain Fox! at Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 Jean Anouilh was the most popular French playwright in the mid-20th century, equally successful in Paris and London. I ...
Love me or kill me. “I write the truth,” said Sarah Kane, “and it kills me.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Cleansed at National Theatre/Dorfman “There is an enormous amount of depression in Cleansed because I felt an enormous depression when writing it,” said Sarah Kane in 1998, shor ...
There are no half measures when staging Jean Genet….
Robert Tanitch reviews The Maids at Trafalgar Studio, London SW1. Jean Genet (1910-1986), delinquent, thief, poet, novelist, playwright, spent most of his life in reformatories and prison. The Maids, ...