Menier Chocolate Factory
The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review
The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask
Susannah Clapp
19, Mar, 2023 @10:30 AM
Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Anne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man
Anne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man
Kate Wyver
17, Mar, 2023 @11:58 AM
The week in theatre: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World; The Sex Party
Javaad Alipoor gets meta with an investigation into investigations, while Terry Johnson leaves little to the imagination
Susannah Clapp
20, Nov, 2022 @10:30 AM
The Sex Party review – spiky comedy fails to satisfy
There’s tension in Terry Johnson’s tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn’t deep enough
Arifa Akbar
16, Nov, 2022 @2:14 PM
Timothy Hutton on The Sex Party: ‘Do I think it will be controversial? I don’t know …’
He won an Oscar at 20 for Ordinary People, acted with the ‘brat pack’ and worked with Polanski and Lumet. As the star makes his London stage debut, he looks back – and anticipates giving audiences a shock
Sarfraz Manzoor
14, Nov, 2022 @1:13 PM
The week in theatre: Nora: A Doll’s House; The Key Workers Cycle; Legacy
Stef Smith’s Ibsen update can’t quite match the original for its sense of dread; the mystery play gets a Covid-era reboot; and Maria Friedman wallows in showtune nostalgia
Kate Kellaway
13, Mar, 2022 @10:30 AM
Maria Friedman and Friends: Legacy review – who’s up for a cabaret lock-in?
Looking back at the work of Sondheim, Hamlisch and Legrand, with glorious songs and personal stories, this is a mixed bag of a show
Arifa Akbar
09, Mar, 2022 @5:08 PM
Habeas Corpus review – Canon Throbbing is back in tragically unfunny farce
Patrick Marber revives Alan Bennett’s 1973 comedy with its trouserless salesman, randy vicar and retrograde Britishness
Arifa Akbar
14, Dec, 2021 @1:05 PM
Brian & Roger: A Highly Offensive Play review – podcast duo’s OTT exploits
The misadventures of a hapless hero led astray by his false friend are funny but don’t quite fill three dimensions
Brian Logan
02, Nov, 2021 @1:41 PM
The week in theatre: Indecent; NW Trilogy; East Is East – review
Cultural identity unites a Jewish writer’s shockingly radical play, diverse tales from Kilburn and Ayub Khan Din’s 1996 classic
Kate Kellaway
19, Sep, 2021 @9:30 AM
Indecent review – a brainy play staged with the panache of a musical
Seven actors share 42 roles in Rebecca Taichman’s stunning production of Paula Vogel’s Tony award-winner about a controversial queer Yiddish play
Mark Lawson
14, Sep, 2021 @10:00 PM
Indecent proposal: the queer Yiddish play that led to an obscenity trial and a Broadway hit
At university, director Rebecca Taichman and playwright Paula Vogel were both drawn to Sholem Asch’s 1907 sensation God of Vengeance. Their show about its controversy now hits London
David Jays
14, Sep, 2021 @12:10 PM
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