Lưu trữ Danh mục: Theatre

Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

5655.jpg

Those who watched Andrew Davies’ 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice might still have Colin Firth’s Darcy, dripping his way out of a lake, branded in their memory. Starring alongside him in the series was Adrian Lukis as George Wickham, who returns here to tell us what became of him after his shenanigans at […]

A Child of Science review – heartbreak and hard work behind birth of IVF

5591.jpg

Towards the end of Gareth Farr’s A Child of Science, which explores the development of IVF, there is a remarkable scene of profound pathos and personal devastation. Huddersfield housewife Margaret (superlatively performed by Adelle Leonce), who has taken part in the trials and is otherwise known as Patient 38, is given unwelcome news. But it […]

Dramas in a crisis: England’s theatres commit to new plays at perilous time for arts

4000.jpg

‘It is really, really awful for playwrights at the moment,” says Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder, co-artistic director of new writing company Box of Tricks. Amid declining commissions and threatened literary departments, there has been a flurry of dire pronouncements about playwriting, with much of the discussion focused on London. Away from the capital, however, smaller companies are […]