Here, cousin, seize the crown
Robert Tanitch reviews Richard II at Almeida Theatre, London N1 I think I can safely say that this is the worst Richard II I have seen. If you have neither seen nor read Shakespeare’s history play, I ...
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Who needs the truth? Truth isn’t always a good idea
Robert Tanitch review The Wild Duck at Almeida Theatre, London N1 Robert Icke has successfully directed Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Schiller’s Mary Stuart. He now turns his attentio ...
Remembering what it was like to be a 13-year-old
Robert Tanitch reviews Dance Nation at Almeida Theatre, London N1 American playwright Clare Barron’s Dance Nation, directed by Bijan Sheibani and choreographed by Aline David, is not a musical, not an ...
A famous feminist play from the 1920’s is revived
Robert Tanitch reviews Machinal at Almeida Theatre. London N1 American playwright Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal was first produced in New York in 1928 but it did not arrive in London until 1931, d ...