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Review of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2025 Globe): “Nightmarish reboot changes a dove for a raven, and it grows into a black swan”
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse welcomes its first candle-lit production of the Bard’s popular comedy. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show to let us know if its bleak, edgier remake has made an ass of itself. Could we just stop normalizing crushing a man’s groin as a humour device? Seriously, I hate to sound…
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Review of ‘Salomé’ (2025 Theatre Royal Haymarket): “Silver-plate staging doesn’t disguise company’s failed baptism of fire”
Gersher Theatre’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s provocative biblical drama celebrates its West End debut through a strictly limited run playing until mid-October. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show to let us know if this new take comes across as a butchery (or decapitation) of the classics. She’s not dancing the dance of the…
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Review of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (The Globe): “Historically-themed remake has no other charms after setting the attractions of its good parts apart”
The Bard’s comedy returns to the London stage in this new production envisioned by reputed director Sean Holmes. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show to let us know if this latest approach to the classic play shall let audiences drink down all unkindness. Well, sooner or later there had to come the moment…
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Review of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (2025 Globe): “Wild West reimagining turns lovers tragedy into a holy-cow extravaganza”
Shakespeare’s Globe hosts this cowboy-themed makeover on the Bard’s timeless romance. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if de-parting from the material’s original looks is, in this case, such sweet sorrow. “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Someone involved with this…
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Review of ‘Ghosts’: “Grave matters don’t spirit away in this still haunting reimagining”
Ibsen’s masterpiece relives on the London stage through this modern-day interpretation, playing at the Lyric Hammersmith until next month and starring Callum Scott-Howells and Victoria Smurfit. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this new revision manages to capture the author’s essence or turns out to be an embarrassing…
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Review of ‘The Glass Menagerie’: “A grasp of blue roses”
Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece returns to the London stage in a reimagined production playing at The Yard Theatre until mid-May. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this new approach on the classic allows its original essence to crystallise. In Spain there was Guernica! But here there was only hot swing…
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Review of ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’: “Blissful misery”
The Bard’s disputed comedy returns to the London stage in an intimate, candlelit production playing at the Globe’s indoor theatre until the start of the New Year. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if, in this new approach on the classic piece, the end is renown, no matter the…
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Review of ‘Pirates of Penzance’: “A first-rate opportunity”
Sasha Regan’s signature all-male production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s masterpiece returns to the London scene, featuring a new cast performing at the Wilton’s Music Hall until the end of the month. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this ‘sir-gent’ approach on the classic work is something he’d jolly…
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Review of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’: “Too green in judgement”
The Bard’s revered historical piece returns to its homeplace in a new production combining conventional acting with sign language performances. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if, in this contemporary look on the classic, the odds is far from gone. “Age cannot wither her.” The doomed affair between the…
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Review of ‘Bedroom Farce’: “There’s more to happen beneath (and over) the sheets”
Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980s comedy returns to the stage through Robin Herford’s newest revival, playing at The Mill at Sonning for a strictly limited run until the end of the summer. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if its crazy mix of love affairs ends up making a good match.…
