70 stories by "Kris Hallett"
Arousing and disturbing in equal measures, English Touring Theatre's production of Equus stirs the senses as much as engages the brain.
In Dougie Blaxland's fascinating new play, The Long Walk Back, currently on a national tour, we see former England cricket international Chris Lewis (Martin Edwards) contemplating his life f…
The Ustinov studio concludes its season of premieres from the Americas with a slow-burning gem from Argentina, The Omission of The Family Coleman, Claudio Tolcachir's cult Buenos Aries hit t…
Many of us will be all too aware of the 9-to-5 drudge that office life can encompass. Yet in Gecko's Institute, the office becomes a place of both dream and nightmare.
Intronauts, the new co-production from Green Ginger and the Nordland Visual Theatre is a work badly in need of a writer.
Trainspotting Live is a theatrical experience like little else. It may not hit the heart like it does the gut but most will be far too caught up in the ride to care.
Truly great acting is rare to see on stages these days, the type that elevates good work into a higher form of art. Yet right now at Bristol Old Vic, Tom Mothersdale's Tricky Dicky, Richard …
There is plenty to like in Tobacco Factory Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a brisk, crisp and fully accessible take on the play that should provide perfect introductions to a Shakespear…
At an hour No Kids is perfectly paced, a constantly fascinating piece; one that articulates a liberal generation's worries and desire in creating a familial unit in 21st century Britain.
Tanya Barfield's Blue Door is a dense, thoughtful 85-minute work that sometimes purrs in the Ustinov Studio.
An adaptation of Angela Carter's 1991 novel about a theatrical dynasty, spanning a century and loaded with Shakespeare, sex and song, Wise Children can exhaust in its constant frenzy of inve…
The Wardrobe has done it again. Oedipuss In Boots is the best fun you can have with your clothes on this Christmas season, an adult festive delight that finds the specificity in silliness an…
There is greatness striding through the heart of Bristol Old Vic's A Christmas Carol and it comes in the shape of Felix Hayes' Ebenezer Scrooge.
Tobacco Factory Theatres have well served Bristol festive audiences over the years, including one bona fide theatrical masterpiece in Sally Cookson's Olivier Award-winning Cinderella. Alas, …
Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment is a typical choice for the Ustinov, a work whose meaning and its overall effect will continue to burrow under the surface of its audience members for w…
If nothing else Wils Wilson has produced a rollicking evening of entertainment in Twelfth Night at Bristol Old Vic, even if it is only a surface level take on this most beguiling of masterpi…
Private passions are the overarching theme of the Welsh National Opera autumn 2018 season, and these passions are at the fore of Joan Font's frothy 2007 production of Rossini's La Cenerentol…
Twenty-five years after Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing premiered at the Bush Theatre, it's clear that its writing still offers hope and enlightenment alongside a cracking yarn.
Marking 100 years since women were first granted the vote, it's a celebration of the women who dared to be different, and a call to arms to finally eradicate gender inequality for good.
If Shakespeare promised his audience in the prologue of Romeo and Juliet two hours' traffic of our stage', Insane Root does one better and knocks out, probably the world's most famous play, …
It has been a heady time for Bristol's The Wardrobe Ensemble, their last two Edinburgh shows have won public acclaim and Fringe Firsts and the company is now taking up residency this August …
Thebes is an epic undertaking that starts slowly but eventually finds its drive. Thousands of years later the Greeks have lost none of their capacity to thrill and surprise.
Patrick Ness' novel slips perfectly into Sally Cookson's fertile theatrical imagination. Its split-focused tale of cancer wards and midnight hour fairy tales suits Cookson's gifts, for genui…
If the production backs up a hunch that it is not quite a modern classic, it's still a highly enjoyable take on a play that shows language is a right that shouldn't be taken lightly.
The View From the Bridge is the show to proclaim loudly that Tobacco Factory Theatres is in safe hands and ready to sail into a golden future under its artistic director Mike Tweddle.
