GOOD starring David Tennant at the Harold Pinter Theatre ★★
‘Good’ premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 1981 and now, after several delays due to the pandemic, returns to the West End for a ten-week run at the Harold Pinter Theatre starring Doctor Who’s David Tennant. It’s 1933 and John Halder (Tennant) is a German Professor who has been handpicked to join the […]
REVIEW: BLITHE SPIRIT (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
Noel Coward‘s 1941 play Blithe Spirit has been revived many times and is one of his most popular works. First performed during World War II, the comedy served as a well-needed tonic and distraction from the world at that time. The show is now back in the West End, at the Harold Pinter Theatre, and […]
REVIEW: WALDEN (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Amy Berryman‘s debut play Walden opened the RE:EMERGE season (which creates a space for new voices and fresh talent to have their work shown on the West End stage) at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London last week. It’s an interesting concept for a show. Stella (Gemma Arterton) get stuck in the middle when her […]
REVIEW: UNCLE VANYA (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★★
Anton Chekhov wrote the play Uncle Vanya in 1895 but this glorious new staging and adaption at the Harold Pinter Theatre by Conor McPherson gives it a timeless feel while still rooted in the decaying country house of Imperial Russia, with a household full of ennui. The brilliant and highly theatrical staging by Rae Smith, […]
REVIEW: Pinter Seven (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★★
Short of a few rehearsed readings to come, Pinter Seven completes the Jamie Lloyd Company’s 24-week season turning the spotlight on Pinter’s one-act plays: a fascinating critical reappraisal of the late Nobel Prize winning playwright’s lifework a decade after his death. Jamie Lloyd has personally directed the bulk of them with a superb creative command […]
REVIEW: Pinter Five / Pinter Six (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
First and Last Things are brought to light in the newest instalments of Jamie Lloyd’s epochal season presenting all of Harold Pinter’s short plays. Pinter Five and Six take us from the unsettling claustrophobia of Pinter’s first play, 1957’s The Room, through to the satirical exasperation of his last, Celebration, from 2000. The complex violence […]
REVIEW: Pinter Three / Pinter Four (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★
Disconnection is the connecting theme of the third and fourth instalments of the Jamie Lloyd Company’s continuing presentation of all of Pinter’s one act plays. Pinter Three and Four gives us an insight into the late Nobel Prize-winning writer’s influences and characteristic tropes, as well as his most irritating tics. These selections are not his […]
REVIEW: Pinter One / Pinter Two (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
The Jamie Lloyd Company’s epochal season Pinter At The Pinter is making a lot of noise for a writer famed for his silences. Ten years on from Pinter’s death, the first two of seven servings of his complete one-act plays gave us a direct sense of his anger and shock value, and his under-regarded humour. […]
REVIEW: Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★★
When it comes to Shakespeare people tend to adopt one of two views. On one side people argue that we need to make it relevant and accessible and therefore adjust interpretations accordingly. On the other side of the argument are the people who say, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Robert Icke’s production of […]