Review by Katie Shaw One Day When We Were Young is a brilliant play in three parts about love, loss, hope and nostalgia, written by Nick Payne and directed by James Haddrell. It follows Violet and Leonard, two people who start as lovers, morph into strangers, and age into memories. Starting out at the height of…
ASBO BOZO arrives at Riverside Studios and we caught up with playwright and actor Georgina Duncan to find out more about the play and its development.
To say that Laura Lomas has recast Miss Julie for Gen Z is both accurate and reductive. This loose adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 classic play, directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan, is an intelligent update centred on modern class, power and sexual politics.
It goes without saying that Shakespeare is ripe for interpretation. Hamlet is a play frequently moulded to fit directors’ visions. My first proper experience of Shakespeare was Michael Sheen’s turn as the Young Prince in Ian Rickson’s 2011 production at the Young Vic. It saw Rickson transform Elsinore’s castle into a psychiatric hospital with Hamlet…
