Maria Aberg
The Motherhood Project review – difficult choices, disparate voices
This set of 15 monologues – from writers including Lemn Sissay, Jodi Gray and Juno Dawson – is heartfelt but feels underpowered
Arifa Akbar
19, Apr, 2021 @6:30 PM
'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
[Blank] review – Alice Birch's build-your-own-play experiment
The playwright throws down the gauntlet to directors, and the result is a show full of ideas but lacking unity
Michael Billington
18, Oct, 2019 @9:51 AM
The week in theatre: Dance Nation; Little Shop of Horrors; King Arthur – review
Adults act up as children in Clare Barron’s acute new study of adolescence. And a man-eating plant, played by a drag queen, feels at home in the park
Susannah Clapp
09, Sep, 2018 @7:00 AM
The Duchess of Malfi review – so bloody you need a blanket
The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg’s staging of Webster’s Jacobean tragedy – a brutal tale of female defiance
Michael Billington
09, Mar, 2018 @10:47 AM
Politics, star power and prison Shakespeare: how Josie Rourke rocked the Donmar
Rourke, who will leave the London theatre in 2019, staged perky experiments, rapid-fire responses and invigorating revivals. Who will take her place?
Mark Lawson
11, Jan, 2018 @6:02 PM
RSC chooses female directors for all plays in summer 2018 season
Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director says decision to name first ever all-woman lineup was not a deliberate act
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
12, Sep, 2017 @2:01 PM
Stage plight: directors and designers on handling Britain's trickiest theatres
‘Inhumane’ proportions, nightmarish sightlines, minuscule playing space … Top theatre figures discuss the perils – and joys – of the Swan, Lyttelton, Wanamaker Playhouse and Royal Exchange stages
Matt Trueman
18, May, 2017 @11:34 AM
Fantastic Mr Fox review – brave take on Roald Dahl could be foxier
Expanding on Dahl’s original cast of characters, the show leads us into interesting territory but loses its nerve and mixes its messages
Lyn Gardner
04, Dec, 2016 @2:12 PM
Your own personal demon: Maria Aberg on her Doctor Faustus double act
In her RSC version of Marlowe’s satanic drama, Maria Aberg bins the jokes, channels Tom Waits and makes the leads strike matches to see who plays who
Interview by Chris Wiegand
12, Feb, 2016 @4:28 PM
Doctor Faustus review – devilish ritual and punk cabaret at the RSC
Oliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg’s darkly inventive, richly psychological production
Michael Billington
12, Feb, 2016 @3:37 PM
The White Devil review – splashy rather than searing
Maria Aberg's feminist take on Webster's lurid play is undermined by anxious updating, writes Susannah Clapp
Susannah Clapp
09, Aug, 2014 @11:09 PM
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