61 stories by "Demetrios Matheou"
Mass, Donmar Warehouse review - purgatorial cat and mouse
Demetrios Matheou
Fri, 05/01/2026 - 12:45
★★★★ MASS, DONMAR WAREHOUSE Purgatorial ca…
Copenhagen, Hampstead Theatre review - with scientists like these, who needs enemies?
Demetrios Matheou
Thu, 04/09/2026 - 08:15
Michael Frayn's great play r…
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, National Theatre review - liaison lite
Demetrios Matheou
Fri, 04/03/2026 - 08:11
★★★ LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, NATIONA…
Hiran Abeyeskera's childlike prince falls flat in a mixed production
The National's latest production of Hamlet opens with a bang: a sureness of style, atmosphere and refreshing comedic effe…
Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright excel in a super new play
The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully …
James Graham adds a neat coda to his ode to decency in sport
With qualifying about to begin for the soccer World Cup, and England sporting a brand new manager, it's fitting that James Graham…
The Almeida's all-women hit transfers to the West End
Annie Ernaux's semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman's life across time and space, history and memory, through wha…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are the powerhouse heart of Robert Icke's adaptation
How many times does a politician survive wave after wave of attack from rivals, surf the waves of fickle …
Emma D'Arcy and Tobias Menzies lock horns in twisted and triumphant take on 'Antigone'
Contemporary reworkings of Greek tragedy run a very particular risk, that out of context the heightene…
James McArdle is immense as Stoppard's true romantic
When it was first produced in 1982, The Real Thing was a turning point for Tom Stoppard, the play that added to the existing perc…
Complicité's reflection on memory, connection and storytelling remains as potent as ever
I'm sitting in the Olivier waiting for the show to start, comfortable in the knowledge that I've see…
Denise Gough reprises her star-making performance in Duncan MacMillan's riotous reflection on addiction and recovery
It's unusual for a play to be revived with its original director and star…
Philip K. Dick's science fiction short story fares far better on screen
Towards the end of David Haig's new adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction short story, someone asks if t…
Greg Hicks shines as Dostoevsky's defiantly optimistic dreamer
Like all great literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's final, eccentric, playfully wondrous short story seems to have been written just…
Billy Crudup essays multiple characters as a fake Englishman abroad
Is it just coincidence, or something about the post-Covid theatrical landscape, that one-person shows are becoming commonp…
John Logan peers behind the scenes of the film world to muse on the icky relationship between life and art
It's awards season in the film world, which means that we're currently swamped by …
Harriet Walter is a toweringly monstrous matriarch in Lorca's tale of cruelty and repression
Rebecca Frecknall opened 2023 with a youthful, visceral, and brutal Streetcar Named Desire …
Hattie Morahan returns to Ibsen, for another round of unhappy families
Henrik Ibsen may well have wanted to shake things up, to rile against the social mores of his time. But his visionary c…
Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James star in misfiring drama involving divas, film execs and dead parrots
Penelope Skinner's new play is one of the most eccentric things I've seen in a long t…
Ian McKellen and Roger Allam as the lonely men who bond over their dogs
Two elderly men meet in the park while walking their dogs, and become friends. Even when friendship turns to love, the…
Lauren Gunderson's new play is timely, tantalising but doesn't quite hit its mark
With more than 20 plays under her belt, San-Francisco based Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced pla…
Mark Rylance conceived and stars in this stirring, but problematic drama of medical discovery hampered by prejudice
As an actor, Mark Rylance specialises in outsiders and eccentrics, outlier…
Rising star Lulu Raczka offers an ambitious if erratic tale of witchcraft and civil war
A man in modern garb reads a tabloid newspaper and makes smarmy wisecracks about the malaise of conte…
This annual rendering of the Dickens classic feels particularly resonant during the economic crisis
It's been five years since I saw the Old Vic's first Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack T…
Simon Russell Beale is the unapologetically corrupt banker, in Ibsen's chilly tragicomedy
It always feels special when a play speaks so directly to an audience that you feel and hear the rip…
