Love and Information

Royal Court

11 October

Here the playwright takes a cell

and splits it into beads and particles of love.

Feeling and dream and pain and passion

pass like clouds across a sharp, white stage,

racing away without a pause to see the crystals

that within them seem to gaze.

 

Love and Information runs at the Royal Court until 13 October

www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/love-and-information

Ding Dong the Wicked

Royal Court

10 October 

Tiny, a seed, a conversation

played out on a slice of stage.

These words are seeds

of something terrible;

even in slices they appear obscene

and unforgivable.

Ding Dong the Wicked runs at the Royal Court until 13 October

www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/ding-dong-the-wicked 

The Woyzeck

New Diorama

4 October

The story circles on knife blades

that trip and conjure blood,

glitter and dust.

The Woyzeck stumbles from experiment

to degradation, learning the worldly lesson

of distrust.

The Lover falls for earrings and admiration,

forfeiting both their lives

for misplaced lust.

 

The Woyzeck runs at the New Diorama Theatre until 13 October

 www.newdiorama.com/whats-on-at-new-diorama.aspx?id=132

Three Sisters

Young Vic

2 October

Three sisters dancing,

crying, drinking, longing for love
and happiness, Moscow, escape.

They built their lives on tables,

parties, promises of love, and now

the slow abandonment of hope.

Slowly they edge towards quiet

and resignation, the solace of work

and drawing in of sleep.

 

Three Sisters runs at the Young Vic until 3 November

www.youngvic.org/whats-on/three-sisters

Anton’s Uncles

Greenwich Theatre

29 September

Here is the flying samovar

and vodka bottles lined up for the fray;

here’s heavy, stifling air and men

desperate for change.

Chekhov would be surprised

by so much song and dance,

laughter and lunacy, that pours like oil

on his stark and careful play.
 

Anton's UNcles is currently on a UK tour until 6 October

http://www.theatremovementbazaar.org/antonsuncles.html 

 

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's Globe

22 September

Here is a perfect sky that quickly turns to velvet and to black.
Here is an oval wreathed in thatch and keen, expectant faces

circling the stage. Tonight this wooden O

is made of shrill high hope and expectation, clamour and acclaim,

as after ten year’s wait one man, one play, returns to play again.

He comes burnished with fame and white with make-up,

guarded, tremulous; and in the face of high sea crowds

he dares to be as delicate and tempered as a skittish foal,

a princess sure as heaven of her jewel case.

He takes the stage and holds it easily

as if it were a pebble in his palm. He barely sighs

but in that sigh there is the squeak and dab of character,

the weight of water and the ocean’s depth.

He wears the dress, the face, the woman in his every breath.

Twelfth Night runs until 14 October at the Globe.

http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre/on-stage/twelfth-night-2012 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

National Theatre

30 August

 

2    Light boxes,

      loops of railway track,

      circles of chalk.

3    Computers,

      puzzles, patterns.

      No touching.

5    Maths A-level:

      A*

7    Rat-love,

      train sets,

      red food dye.

11  Dogs: one heart-melting,

       one dead – the mystery

       that starts it all.

13  The way he sees the world:

       one-way

       and shadow-less.

17  The end.

       I know its theatre but still

       I am half-overcome –

19  Heartbreak.

       Sheer joy.

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time runs until 27 October at the National Theatre

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time