Utterly Shafted
Eileen Caiger-Gray reviews SHAFTED at DONCASTER CAST Regular bursts of laughter fill the auditorium during the 80-minute, two-act play that is Shafted. As the wordplay implies it takes us up north to ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Eimear McBride’s awarding-winning novel is acted by Aoife Duffin
Robert Tanitch reviews A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing at Young Vic, London SE1 Eimear McBride wrote A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing when she was 27. It took her 9 years to find a publisher. If you have r ...
38 years after its release Jeff Wayne re-invents his musical version of “The War of the Worlds”.
Robert Tanitch reviews The War of the Worlds at Dominion Theatre, London W1 H G Wells’s novel, first published in 1897, has never been out of print and there have been countless adaptations on film an ...
ENO stages its first ever production of Bellini’s much admired but rarely staged bel canto opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Norma at London Coliseum, WC2 Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), who died young of tuberculosis, said, “Opera must make people weep, feel horrified, die through singing.” Norma ...