The Guardian

Cork Midsummer festival online – Virginia Woolf’s novel, centring on an Edwardian marriage and the rupture of war, is richly adapted and beautifully staged with a strong ensemble cast. Shadow and light alternate in Marina Carr’s rich new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, filmed in Cork’s Everyman theatre in a co-production with Hatch Theatre Company. […]

The easygoing reminiscences of three women reveal depths of turmoil and heartache in Mark O’Rowe’s deftly written triumph. Three friends meet around a table to catch up on each other’s lives. They chat, drink tea, leave and reconvene. Despite a minimal plot and dialogue that might appear static on the page, The Approach is a

Garry Hynes’s long-haul, gender-blind production of Richard II, Henry IV parts one and two and Henry V offers a staggering study of the instability of power Shakespeare’s history plays speak to us more directly than his tragedies, and they are increasingly being explored by directors outside Britain. While Ivo van Hove prepares Kings of War for the

The Merchant of Venice, Olivier Theatre, London. In moving from the Cottesloe to the Olivier, Trevor Nunn’s celebrated production has become as broad as it is long: there’s too much protracted business and too much italicised acting in the minor roles. What holds it together is Nunn’s cumulative psychological insight and the sterling performances from