First Night Feature

  • Liberty

    04 Sep 2008

    Liberty

    A chilly night at Shakespeare’s Globe marks the beginning of the end of alfresco theatre season. But with a nip in the air, there was anything but a frosty reception for Liberty, the new French Revolution-set piece by Glyn Maxwell. Read more

  • Twelfth Night

    03 Sep 2008

    Twelfth Night

    Madness, mayhem, yellow stockings and binge drinking have all descended on the Tricycle theatre with Filter’s surreal take on Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity and cross-dressing.  Read more

  • Gigi

    15 Aug 2008

    Gigi

    Set against the Belle Époque of Paris, the all-singing, all-dancing musical Gigi is perfectly designed for the magical space that is the Open Air theatre. With the Oscar-winning Chaim Topol starring as Honore... Read more

  • Piaf

    14 Aug 2008

    Piaf

    Edith Piaf, the French singer who rose from nothing to great fame, only to succumb to an early death, is captured by Elena Roger in the Donmar Warehouse’s new production of Piaf, Pam Gems’s 1978 play. Read more

  • Timon Of Athens

    07 Aug 2008

    Timon Of Athens

    It seems in these days of recession anxiety, even Shakespeare was influenced by the credit crunch, as the Globe stages one of his lesser performed plays, Timon Of Athens. Charlotte Marshall was in the first night audience. Read more

  • Her Naked Skin

    01 Aug 2008

    Her Naked Skin

    It is easy to forget what women went through to achieve the vote. From the moment Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play opens with footage of Emily Wilding Davison throwing herself under the hooves of the King’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, we are reminded.  Read more

  • ...Some Trace Of Her

    31 Jul 2008

    ...Some Trace Of Her

    Katie Mitchell is a director famous for dividing opinion with her controversial adaptations of classic literature. Her latest production, the film and stage hybrid ...Some Trace Of Her, is no exception. Read more

  • Gone Too Far!

    29 Jul 2008

    Gone Too Far!

    Has there ever been a more timely piece of programming than transferring Gone Too Far!, the Royal Court’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning hit from 2007’s Upstairs season, to the theatre’s larger Downstairs theatre? Read more

  • Under The Blue Sky

    28 Jul 2008

    Under The Blue Sky

    The lives, loves and losses of six teachers are intertwined in three tightly constructed scenes in David Eldridge’s play at the Duke of York’s.  Read more

  • The Female Of The Species

    22 Jul 2008

    The Female Of The Species

    In a week where Germaine Greer has loomed over the production like the angry clouds of a British summer sky, The Female Of The Species faced critics who would actually watch the play last night. Read more


Buy Theatre Tickets