Almeida – Hackney Citizen

Roots/Look Back in Anger, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Extremes are the rule of the day’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 11:46

An ambitious run of two plays using the same cast enables some serious acting chops

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 10 May 2024 at 14:51

The UK debut of Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ play is ‘engaging, if not mind-blowing’

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

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 25 January 2023 at 11:57

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

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 20 July 2022 at 09:56

Peter Morgan’s masterpiece ‘deconstructs what patriotism means to Russians’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 22 April 2022 at 15:11

Jeremy O. Harris’s play has ‘undeniable beauty and skill’ but it is ‘simply too long and too busy’

By Gabriel Wilding | Thursday 24 October 2019 at 10:05

Maxim Gorky’s dark comedy about power and greed, adapted with aplomb by Mike Bartlett, ‘rings as true today as it did in 1910’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 11:15

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

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

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 August 2015 at 15:52

Ben Whishaw impresses as a Greek god in Anne Carson’s slick adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides

By East End Review | Friday 3 October 2014 at 11:59

Alecky Blythe reflects on a successful run with her verbatim play about the Hackney Riots, Little Revolution