

Off the Hook
✮✮✮ 1/2 Kemp Powers' One Night in Miami...
Donmar Warehouse | London


Beyond the Brain
✮✮✮✮ Nick Payne's Elegy Donmar Warehouse | London directed by Josie Rourke What is a life? Is it enough just to be alive and well, or do we need something else to make our lives more than just existence? These are some of the questions raised in Nick Payne’s latest play, Elegy. Lorna (Zoë Wanamaker) has a neurodegenerative disease which will kill her, unless she has the affected part of her brain removed – and with it every memory of her wife, Carrie (Barbara Flynn). The pl


Boys' Night In
✮✮✮✮ Kevin Elyot's My Night With Reg Donmar Warehouse | London directed by Robert Hastie In Bulgakov’s theatrical novel Black Snow he points out that the Russians have an untranslatable word for when something goes wrong on stage. These mishaps have the gracious effect of concentrating the audience’s attention, a sharpening of eyes and ears too used to the smooth rapport of rehearsed text. But more than this they are reminders that in theatre no show is ever quite the same. S