I reviewed The Hackney Volpone for Everything Theatre: Volpone, the sly fox, has spent years weaving a web of deception around himself. All Venice believes he is infirm and likely to die soon without an heir. To ingratiate themselves in a bid to inherit his estate, the nobles of Venice produce ever more lavish gifts … Continue reading
Author Archives: Caitlin McDonald
The Hackney Volpone: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Hackney Volpone for Everything Theatre: Volpone, the sly fox, has spent years weaving a web of deception around himself. All Venice believes he is infirm and likely to die soon without an heir. To ingratiate themselves in a bid to inherit his estate, the nobles of Venice produce ever more lavish gifts … Continue reading
The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre for Everything Theatre: Sebastian Michael was inspired to write The Sonneteer after a friend posted a sonnet a day on Facebook. Reading them sequentially made Michael see them as a story, rather than individual pieces, and his play focuses on those Shakespearean sonnets known as the Fair … Continue reading
The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Sonneteer at the Landor Theatre for Everything Theatre: Sebastian Michael was inspired to write The Sonneteer after a friend posted a sonnet a day on Facebook. Reading them sequentially made Michael see them as a story, rather than individual pieces, and his play focuses on those Shakespearean sonnets known as the Fair … Continue reading
Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Macbeth in Abney Park Cemetery for Everything Theatre: Macbeth makes sense in a graveyard. The knell of death and otherworldliness in Abney Park Cemetery, which is also a nature reserve, makes it a natural place to stage the bloody story of betrayal, hubris, and remorse. Paul Linghorn’s direction makes particularly good use of … Continue reading
Kitchen at Rich Mix Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Kitchen at Rich Mix theatre for Everything Theatre: Kitchen revolves around Jacinta, a young Brazilian émigré arriving in East London in 1978 to work at a biscuit factory. Jacinta’s British aunt Tracey has taken Jacinta under her wing to help her escape the dangers of life in Brazil. Playwright Gaël Le Cornec uses … Continue reading
Kitchen at Rich Mix Theatre: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Kitchen at Rich Mix theatre for Everything Theatre: Kitchen revolves around Jacinta, a young Brazilian émigré arriving in East London in 1978 to work at a biscuit factory. Jacinta’s British aunt Tracey has taken Jacinta under her wing to help her escape the dangers of life in Brazil. Playwright Gaël Le Cornec uses … Continue reading
Bastille Day at Brasserie Zedel (or, the Wapping Beret Sweat Shop)
Brasserie Zedel ran a promotion this year on Bastille Day offering a free dinner to anyone who showed up in a striped blue-and-white Breton shirt and a beret. My neighbours Paul (of Pootling Around fame) and Hannah and I decided that we couldn’t possibly miss this opportunity to express our Francophile tendencies (not to mention … Continue reading
Review for Everything Theatre: Merely As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre
I reviewed the Merely Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It at the Cockpit Theatre for Everything Theatre last week: The Cockpit’s ambitious summer venture involves a company of 20 actors performing a different Shakespeare play each month for one night only, with As You Like It being the penultimate in the series. The Merely Shakespeare Company … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 