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Posts Tagged ‘Almeida Theatre’

King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 February 2024 | 0

Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’

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‘Big part of the team’: Meet the kitchen worker with learning difficulties using specialist how-to videos to feed theatregoers

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 24 October 2023 | 0

With support from the council and colleagues at the Almeida, Jemaine Williams can refer to AutonoMe videos to help him cut the perfect baguette

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The Chairs, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘An intellectual pickling’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 4 March 2022 | 0

This reimagining of Eugene Ionesco’s play is ‘delightful and disquieting in equal measure’

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Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Burning with political astuteness’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 14 September 2021 | 0

Josh Azouz’s outstanding writing ‘pokes fun at the monstrous contradictions of fascism’

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Covid culture fund to help dozens of Islington venues

By Islington Citizen | Wednesday 7 April 2021 | 0

Government grants to revive performance and visual arts as lockdown loosens

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Hymn, Almeida Theatre – review: ‘Writing at its most perceptive’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 1 March 2021 | 0
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani

Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani shine in Lolita Chakrabarti’s play, which was live-streamed over a four-day run

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The Hunt, Almeida Theatre: ‘This show has it all’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 8 July 2019 | 0

This stage adaptation of the iconic Danish film is ‘slick, clever and near faultless’

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Three Sisters, Almeida Theatre, review: ‘Captivating display of human suffering’

By Phoebe Cooke | Thursday 18 April 2019 | 0

Sharp choreography and bursts of humour lift this terrifying glimpse over the abyss

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Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre, review: ‘Full of a fantasmagoric energy’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 21 February 2019 | 0

Fisayo Akinade shines in this ‘compelling exploration of the American moral landscape in Trump time’

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Machinal, Almeida – review: an expressionist masterpiece on marital life and motherhood

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 12 June 2018 | 0
Machinal

Natalie Abrahami’s production of this 1928 play has a current resonance about the social confinement many women face

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The Writer, Almeida Theatre, review: young playwright Ella Hickson offers ‘a subtle reflection on power hierarchies’ in meta triumph

By Islington Citizen | Thursday 26 April 2018 | 0
Writer's block: Romola Garai as the playwright in Ella Hickson's new drama at the Almeida. Photographs: Manuel Harlan

Post-modern but thrillingly ‘warts and all’, Hickson’s take on the sexism and patriarchy found in pursuit of creative freedom is complex and rewarding

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