Emma Rice
The week in theatre: The Walk; Wuthering Heights – review
Little Amal makes human hearts beat faster, while compassion fuels Emma Rice’s great whirl of a Brontë adaptation
Susannah Clapp
31, Oct, 2021 @10:30 AM
Wuthering Heights review – Emma Rice’s audacious riff on Emily Brontë’s classic
Retelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
Arifa Akbar
22, Oct, 2021 @12:02 PM
Brief Encounter review – sparkling revival of Emma Rice’s forbidden romance
This polished production brings Rice’s innovative adaptation of the classic film to life, with an electric central partnership and personality to spare
Anya Ryan
19, Oct, 2021 @10:28 AM
‘My blood stirred, my mind fizzed’: Emma Rice on Wuthering Heights
Horrified by the cruelty shown to children seeking asylum in Britain, the director has adapted Emily Brontë’s book which has haunted her since her teens
Emma Rice
30, Sep, 2021 @11:48 AM
Bagdad Cafe review – magic and miracles in the desert
Warm, wily and gloriously playful, Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1987 film is another motel-and-ballad show triumph for the Old Vic
Susannah Clapp
01, Aug, 2021 @9:30 AM
Bagdad Cafe review – a kooky cabaret on Route 66
Emma Rice’s version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
Arifa Akbar
29, Jul, 2021 @12:39 PM
‘It was like running away with the circus’ – the thrills, shocks and genius of Kneehigh
As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation
Interviews by Chris Wiegand
16, Jun, 2021 @5:00 AM
Old Vic theatre plans ‘supremely informal’ welcome back for audiences
Exclusive: Emma Rice’s adaptation of Bagdad Cafe and Harold Pinter’s darkly comic The Dumb Waiter staged in July as venue reopens
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
11, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
'Solidarity in Europe': Maria Aberg's international theatre company looks ahead
The acclaimed Swedish director’s Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
Arifa Akbar
15, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM
Theatres that made us: from Shakespeare's Globe to Leicester's Curve
Arts venues have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still unable to stage live performances. In the second part of a new series, we celebrate their essential role
Compiled by Chris Wiegand
07, Jul, 2020 @11:00 AM
Orpheus in the Underworld review – balloons for tutus and jarring tragedy
Emma Rice’s imaginative reworking features lovely singing, pleasing comedy, striking stage designs – and a misjudged moment of sadness
Erica Jeal
06, Oct, 2019 @12:49 PM
Bring on the dancing sleazeballs: Emma Rice has a riot with Orpheus
Three years since she was fired from Shakespeare’s Globe, the director has bounced back with Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld – a riotous epic stuffed with puppet bees and romantic cabbies
Claire Armitstead
04, Oct, 2019 @11:04 AM
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