The Theatre Times

Perhaps one of the strangest experiences one can have when moving to a new place is watching a performance tackling the exact same situation. Luckily, no two re-rooting stories are the same, so the uncanniness of seeing one’s own life from a third person point of view can be put aside.

In February 2026, Forward Theatre Company brought to the audiences of Madison, Wisco...

At a time when, in the post-Brexit years, British theatre is increasingly insular, a visit by the Wooster Group, legendary veterans of American experimental theatre, is surely worth celebrating. So many thanks to Anda Winters, Artistic Director of the Coronet Theatre, for this excellent programming. As this show’s name suggests, Nayatt School Redux is a revisiting an...

In a small town, where nothing really happens, K. works at VHS World, alongside her teenage friends (all misfits, according to the local twin bullies), and the boss, a middle-aged man who seems to have a (not so slight) pornography addiction. Nothing seems out of place, out of the ordinary 1999 small town life.

Having been given Jen’s, a former employee’s badge, K. set...

Milan’s international festival, FOG, continues with productions from Italy and many parts of the globe. In late March I caught Frankenstein (History of Hate), a production by the much-acclaimed company, MOTUS, founded in Rimini, central Italy, in 1991 by Enrico Casagrande e Daniela Nicolò. From the outset, these innovative practitioners included musicians, designers ...

Outside, mid-April in Basingstoke was all drizzle and grey light. Inside The Haymarket, Art of Andalucia opened another climate entirely. For one evening, the theatre felt closer to a Spanish taberna, alive with song, guitar, percussion and dance. Its warmth came from the shared play running through the evening. Singers, musicians and dancers listened, answered, teas...