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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta

Choreographer Carmen Igarza deserves to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30

Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both

Elegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12

The Rivals review – heady, flapper-ish revival is stylishly silly Christmas fun

Comedy’s upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally

The Guardian - UK · Jan 4

Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre review: subtly radical, and impressively nuanced

4/5 Tom Littler’s 1940s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy might seem staid on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2024

Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024

‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are things finally changing?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2024

She Stoops to Conquer at the Orange Tree Theatre review: a charming, starry Christmas package

Like too much champagne, this story of country bumpkins outwitting London swells is sparkling but confusing

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2023

The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review

SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

The Circle review – love, tears and tender truths when Jane Asher comes to call

Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023