59 stories by "Mert Dilek"
This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly sharp in some of its preoccupations: questions of identity, memory, political urgency, and the…
Yaël Farber presents Shakespeare's blistering play with bravura
Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy…
Tony-winning production lands in the West End with an astounding cast
Doom and gloom, we are told, may have abounded in the classical underworld, but Hadestown suggests otherwise. Returning …
A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking us deep into their interiority. Or it may zigzag feverishly between an astounding range of figures …
"This play is a lie," boldly declares the poster of Sam Holcroft's new play A Mirror, now playing at London's Trafalgar Theatre after its initial run at the Almeida Theatre last summer. It's…
How to render Macbeth anew"and how to do it well? It's a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied countless directors, actors, and designers over the centuries. And it's a question that has…
An American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in London to start working on a new production. This is not so much the opener of a joke as the tant…
The Netflix hit broadens its beguiling story with this thrilling, high-powered stage production
Stranger Things has shown us over four seasons that the alternate dimension known as the Upsid…
Shakespeare meets Game of Thrones in an efficient but emotionally stilted production
Few would have imagined that Kenneth Branagh's return to the West End would see him garbed in fur-lined, …
Director Jamie Lloyd is at the height of his powers in this stark, sublime reinterpretation of a modern classic
Jamie Lloyd has the gift that keeps on giving. Hot on the heels of recent prod…
Today's obvious was most likely yesterday's incredible. This is the conceit at the heart of Dr Semmelweis, a new play written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance, which has transferred to Lon…
Martin McDonagh is perhaps better known today globally for his recent accomplishments on screen as a writer and director, but he cut his teeth through his prodigious work as a playwright. Fi…
Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in an underpowered adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story
For a masterclass in expansive adaptation, one could do worse than turn to Ang Lee's Oscar-winnin…
Contemporary Black British theatre is admirably adamant about pushing its own boundaries and expanding its audience. A recent case in point is Ryan Calais Cameron's bracing play For Black Bo…
Dominic Cooke's otherwise uneven production boasts formidable performances
What is one to do with Greek tragedy on the contemporary stage? For Simon Stone, whose Phaedra is currently playing…
This new musical about the early life of Nelson Mandela is a mawkish misfire
As bio-musicals continue to have their heyday, it makes sense for the Young Vic to throw its hat in the ring and …
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have recently witnessed the British playwright's musical adaptation of the life of Tammy Faye, th…
Charming performances in this watered-down version of Virginia Woolf's novel
Identity is thorny business. This was the parting thought of Anna X, the play that marked Emma Corrin's West End …
Lyndsey Turner paints this seminal drama with disturbing colours
How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692, …
Édouard Louis's book is brought to life in a fierce performance
A bare interior with tarnished walls, a single bed, and an oxygen tube. The stage seems to have been set for a Beckett pla…
Bartlett Sher's Broadway production comes to London with aplomb
First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher's Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London's latest import from B…
Jez Butterworth's 2009 play is evergreen in its excellence
At long last, the giant has come back. Over a decade after its critical apotheosis on both sides of the Atlantic, Jez Butterworth's…
'Killing Eve' star's stage debut is a triumph
National statistics tell us that, in the year ending September 2021, 41% of rape victims in England and Wales eventually withdrew their support …
Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Fairview and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… has a …
Alana Valentine's play about crime and poverty in Australia receives a spirited production
The complex history of capital punishment in Australia may not be familiar to many Londoners, but t…
