theatre review

The Nottingham New Theatre has recently been splashed with the colours of Art, a production exploring ideas of friendship through an original and thought-provoking frame. Alice Busvine reviews Jake Levy’s adaptation of Art by Yasmina Reza for Impact Magazine....

Hannah Bentley reviews Daisy Norton’s and James Fellas-Laurie’s adaptation of MOJO by Jez Butterworth - a fun and lively production of a dark-humoured play that explores the toxic power dynamics and gangster culture of the Atlantic Club in 1950s London, with unpredictable plot twists....

The Nottingham New Theatre presents a charming yet cheeky rendition of Oscar Wilde’s most renowned play, The Importance of Being Earnest. The play is a witty tragic comedy which comments satirically on the moral standards of Victorian society. The NNT have succeeded in resurrecting Wilde’s text to make it...

A play about two people who meet every week in a local cafe to fantasise about killing one another’s respective partners may, at first, sound drastic. However, M Craig’s witty, well-timed yet pleasantly dark comedy was, in fact, a joy to watch. Nieve O'Donnell reviews....

NNT have put their own modern twist to the classic Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, written by Euripides. Based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus and his mother Agave, this powerful and captivating performance is not one you’d want to miss. Beatrice Oladeji reviews....

Two girls, Laura and Lizzie, fight fear and temptation as dark things lurk in the woods. Like the delicious fruit the titular goblins’ sell, Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market is ripe for the adaptation at the hands of the Nottingham New Theatre. Tim Ovenden was there to see it....

Ella Seber-Rajan and Abraham Botha’s ‘Beyond the Sky’ follows the story of an inter-racial couple Lizzy Darcy and Delroy Thompson as they navigate love and relationships in a period of rising tensions between black and white communities in 1960s London. Anna Bulcock shares her thoughts on the opening night...