-
Review of ‘Little Women’ (2025 tour): “Immature take on the literary classic leads to a growth-lacking show”
The Richmond Theatre hosts this new stage adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if its exploration of girlhood is, in any aspect, femme-tastic. When French composer Claude-Michel Schoenberg and librettist Alain Boublil sought out to turn Victor Hugo’s 1200-page epic saga…
-
Playwright Barney Norris talks new contemporary adaptation of Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’: “The words alone aren’t a translation, it’s everything in the show”
Following the success of his last play starring Asa Butterfield, Norris lands his latest creation on the stage of the Omnibus Theatre – transforming Lorca’s turn-of-the-century drama into a dark comedy set in modern-day England. Guillermo Nazara chats with the author, to learn more about the development of the piece and what prompted him to…
-
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…
-
Review of ‘The Secret Garden’: “Unlocked wonder”
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s turn-of-the-century classic returns to the stage in a new adaptation playing at Regent’s Open Air Theatre until mid-summer. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this blooming version of a literary icon ends up coming up roses. “If someone wanted me to die, I would keep…
-
Review of ‘The Glass Menagerie”: “Coming to crystal-clear sparkle”
Tennessee Williams’s all-time classic returns to the London stage in a visually innovative production by Atri Banerjee, currently playing until the end of the month. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this new mirror image on Williams’s own life has any cracks in it. The past always finds…
-
Review of ‘Macbeth (An Undoing)”: “Nothing wicked this way comes”
Shakespeare’s fiendish tragedy takes another form in this new interpretation playing at London’s Rose Theatre ahead of its New York and Edinburgh runs. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this re-imagined version of a classic is bound for a tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. “Double, double, toil and…
