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Posts Tagged ‘Almeida Theatre’

King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 February 2024 at 10:30

Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’

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Cold War, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘A thinking person’s musical’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 15 December 2023 at 11:09

Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon delight in this ‘Eastern Bloc Shakespearean tale’

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Portia Coughlan, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Impressive depiction of crumbling mental health’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 17 November 2023 at 15:18

Marina Carr’s drama features a ‘jaw-dropping’ lead performance, but is somewhat let down by its ‘unrelentingly pounding’ subject matter

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A Streetcar Named Desire, The Almeida, stage review: ‘little mistakes puncture a layered tapestry’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 25 January 2023 at 11:57
A Streetcar Named Desire. Front: Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan.

Shouts, snatches of song, and sudden clashes of cymbals keep everyone on edge

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The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Out to shock – and shock it does’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 09:23

Yaël Farber’s star-studded take on the classic is elegant, but ‘both its visual beauty and horror are overexposed’

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Hymn, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Writing at its most perceptive’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 22 February 2021 at 14:40
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani

Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani shine in Lolita Chakrabarti’s play, which was live-streamed over a four-day run

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Albion, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘A beautiful parable for modern times’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 14 February 2020 at 15:14

Rupert Goold’s reprisal of Mike Bartlett’s family drama ‘does not have a single chink in its armour’

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The Duchess of Malfi, Almeida Theatre: ‘High-octane take on a surprisingly modern play’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 12 December 2019 at 12:04

John Webster’s early 17th century classic is an ‘object lesson in the iniquity of restrictions on a woman’s sexual conduct’

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The Doctor, Almeida Theatre: ‘High-calibre, unique drama that will leave you a changed person’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 23 August 2019 at 18:39

Robert Icke’s third collaboration with Juliet Stevenson, and his last outing as the theatre’s associate director, is ‘impeccable’

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The Hunt, Almeida Theatre: ‘This show has it all’

By Gabriel Wilding | Thursday 4 July 2019 at 17:11

This stage adaptation of the iconic Danish film is ‘slick, clever and near faultless’

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Three Sisters, Almeida Theatre, review: ‘Captivating display of human suffering’

By Phoebe Cooke | Thursday 18 April 2019 at 12:56

Sharp choreography and bursts of humour lift this terrifying glimpse over the abyss

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Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, review: method and madness

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 11:15
Andrew Scott (Hamlet), Amaka Okafor (Guildenstern) and Calum Finlay (Rosencrantz). Photograph: Manuel Harlan.

The N1 theatre stages the tragedy with a variety of bells & whistles that make for a stylish production

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From the Ground Up, Shoreditch Town Hall, review: 'a lo-fi game show experience'

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 August 2016 at 17:22

The show, devised by the Almeida young company, saw audiences peppered with provocative yes-or-no questions

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Richard III – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 21 June 2016 at 19:45
Ralph Fiennes

Echoes of Rigsby from 70s sitcom Rising Damp in the way Fiennes turns dialogue into series of japes

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Boy, Almeida, review: 'a nightmare vision of consumerist Britain'

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 May 2016 at 14:16

Innovative production brings Leo Butler’s stark vision of 21st century London to life in Boy at the Almeida

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Little Revolution review – revisiting the Hackney riots

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 September 2014 at 22:03

Playwright Alecky Blythe recreates a community in crisis in her latest verbatim play

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