204 stories by "Carole Woddis"
Michael Longhurst's terrific, visceral debut production of David Greig's Europe at the Donmar Warehouse packs a fierce climactic punch.
It could be said that Bitter Wheat lifts the lid on the exploitation of power in the film industry, but it eaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Perhaps that was also part of David Mamet's…
Theatre director and playwright who spoke for those on the margins of societyThe playwright and director Philip Osment, who has died aged 66 from complications arising from pulmonary fibrosi…
Marie McCarthy's Clapham Omnibus venue never ceases to surprise. Dedicated, as befits its previous life as a library, to storytelling in all its various forms, Scott Le Crass' revival of Sim…
It was a bold idea on Tom Littler's part to think of adapting Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray into a multi gender-swapping stage production.
Come From Away, the story of how one small town, Gander in Newfoundland, responded to events of 9/11 when 7,000 passengers from 38 diverted aircraft landed in their midst, is one of the most…
Philip Ridley and Robert Chevara's production of Vincent River emerges as a masterful depiction of oppositional but mutual need unexpectedly producing a healing catharsis.
For Death of a Salesman, one of Arthur Miller's greatest plays about the hollowness of the American Dream, Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell and their cast make it an impressive, even dy…
Avalanche is a sobering, haunting journey that carries as much warning as it does perhaps solace to those thinking of having IVF or have had it as well as a kind of delight in the sheer beau…
It could all go horribly wrong but Ian Rickson's production of Rosmersholm in Duncan Macmillan's new adaptation brings Ibsen's dense moral and political tragedy safely into port.
'A sweet sexy fairy tale' is how one critic described Sweet Charity on its opening in London in October 1967. And Josie Rourke's final production as the Donmar's artistic director before han…
The achievement of Rebecca Frecknall's new production, as with her recent mega success with Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke is to speak to modern sensitivities with a clarity of vision …
Don't go to Rooms if you want an easy, escapist 75 minutes, but do go for language, atmosphere, the darkest corners of your own psyches touched with raw beauty.
Even if you weren't a card-carrying Labour Party member, you'd be hard put not to come away from Tony's Last Tape at the Omnibus Theatre with the light of idealism burning a little bit brigh…
All in all, Joe Harmston's production brings James Phillips' extraordinary empathy with his subject to a tender and sensitive conclusion in The Rubenstein Kiss whilst weighing up the noble a…
Inside Bitch is a messy but enjoyable counter-balance to the usual women-in-prison scenarios. Roll on Clean Break.
It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of director Lucy Bailey and her producers to decide to stage one of Agatha Christie's best-loved court room dramas in something approaching a …
It's a dangerous world out there but this engaging, entertaining and brilliant War of the Worlds couldn't come at a better time as a reminder to practise caution and scepticism before buying…
Almeida Theatre, London ***
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I love Christopher Marlowe. I love the raciness and rebel in him. And sometimes, particularly in Paulette Randall's reframed version here at Shakespeare's Globe with Doctor Faustus.
The Cane, Mark Ravenhill's latest, represents an investigation that remarkably refuses to follow today's tropes of outrage and counter-intuitively and presents a different kind of moral ethi…
Rebecca Frecknall's production of Summer & Smoke with its chorus of pianos fits as snugly into the Duke of York's as it must have done at the Almeida.
There is no one quite like debbie tucker green and her new play ear for eye, no one writing with the same urgency, disquiet and plain brilliance for adjusting and changing forms.
There's much to delight in Sarah DeLappe's punchy debut play, an American account of a group of teenage girl soccer players.
Though Robert Icke's didacticism can be irritating, this Wild Duck undoubtedly pulls its modern audience into Ibsen's tense, spiralling emotions to powerful effect.
