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No food for thought
The Guilty at the Donmar sits somewhere between immersive theatre and watching an episode of a real crime drama on TV. It absolutely keeps you captivated for the very brief 60 minutes over which it plays out. Russell Tovey is compelling throughout, carrying the emotion and grounding the escalating tension in something believable. The set…
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What a load of wobble
Spoiler alert – this is a new play – do not read on if you don’t want to know about what happens There is very little positive to say about Anna Ziegler’s Evening all afternoon at the Donmar. For a play about the importance of connecting, it really does not connect. I suppose it did…
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Theatre of the not-so-absurd
When, in February 1933, the two live-in maids Christine and Léa Papin brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, the French public saw the crime as an act of revolt by the downtrodden working class against their bourgeois oppressors. Fourteen years later, Jean Genet transformed the case into one of the earliest…
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