Fleur Darkin and Jemima Levick’s minimalist yet sensual adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover leaves us with a nostalgic chill down our spines breathing an air of abandonment, for a love than can never be. This play is a tragic tale relating Marguerite Duras’ youth in Vietnam, where, at the age of fifteen, she fell […]
Exit, pursued by a bear. For many audience members, including myself, this iconic stage direction would have been the only information known regarding the plot of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Truth be told, seeing how The Lyceum’s production would execute such a formidable instruction was my main motivation for reviewing this performance. Surely, the […]
We arguably owe all theatre to the Greeks. Drama, satire, comedy – all exports from a culture that existed some two-thousand five hundred years ago. You might then assume that an opportunity to watch a play written at the dawn of theatre would offer a reminder of some timeless format. This is not the case. […]