Almeida Theatre - Hackney Citizen

Stanley Townsend, Daniel Mays and Hayley Squires round out a cast in which the women get little to do

Author: Hackney Citizen

Ruth Wilson shines in the Eugene O'Neill classic, but this three-hour-long adaptation does fall victim to a lack of variety

Author: Hackney Citizen

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

Author: Sarah Birch

Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon delight in this ‘Eastern Bloc Shakespearean tale’

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Marina Carr’s drama features a ‘jaw-dropping’ lead performance, but is somewhat let down by its ‘unrelentingly pounding’ subject matter

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Shouts, snatches of song, and sudden clashes of cymbals keep everyone on edge

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Yaël Farber’s star-studded take on the classic is elegant, but ‘both its visual beauty and horror are overexposed’

Author: Gabriel Wilding

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

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Rupert Goold’s reprisal of Mike Bartlett’s family drama ‘does not have a single chink in its armour’

Author: Gabriel Wilding

John Webster’s early 17th century classic is an ‘object lesson in the iniquity of restrictions on a woman’s sexual conduct’

Author: Sarah Birch

Robert Icke’s third collaboration with Juliet Stevenson, and his last outing as the theatre’s associate director, is ‘impeccable’

Author: Gabriel Wilding

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

Author: Gabriel Wilding