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    • James IV: Queen of The Fight
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    • Operation Julie

    Lyric Theatre, Belfast

    Northern Ireland Opera has had a successful year, beginning with a flamboyant version of Into the Woods in February and ending with a spectacular La Traviata in September. Both were directed by its artistic director Cameron Menzies, with spectacular set designs by Niall McKeever, in which Sondheim’s artistic and musical challenges, comic confusion and ambiguous moral messages ebbed and flowed around a giant wooden honeycomb enveloped in a dense fog of mystery and menace. In and around its noo...

    Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, and touring

    The first three instalments in Rona Munro’s seven-play Scottish history cycle – James I, James II and James III – arrived in 2014. The fourth – James IV: Queen of the Fight – kicked off a six-stop tour at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in October. It followed the fates of two Moorish women in the cosmopolitan court of King James, and featured fine performances from its 11-strong cast and a striking design from Jon Bausor. Laurie Sansom’s production for the National Theatre of Scotland, Raw Mate...

    Touring

    Touring theatre consortium Ramps on the Moon has proved itself an industry leader in making work by D/deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists – it is no wonder its first Shakespeare was a treat. Robert Hastie’s production was fast-paced and great fun, integrating creative sign language, audio description and captioning in ingenious ways that amplified the spying, snooping plot. Both comedy and tragedy were mined in this darkest of romcoms, with Daneka Etchells and Guy Rhys as Beatrice and Ben...

    Touring

    RashDash – aka Helen Goalen, Abbi Greenland and Becky Wilkie – can be relied upon to tackle big themes with irreverent, quicksilver wit. All three of them gave birth during the gestation of this show about motherhood, and they channelled their personal experiences into theatre that was astute, giddily funny and profoundly moving. Serene domestic goddesses, a talking vagina and tyrannical toddlers were just a few of the provocations in a piece that mused on the challenges of caring for parents...

    Touring

    Despite being around for more than 30 years, Theatr na nÓg remains Welsh theatre’s best-kept secret. This year, the company and director Geinor Styles scored two deserved successes with a Welsh-language adaptation of Shirley Valentine (steered by a storming performance from Shelley Rees) and then Operation Julie, a rock musical based on the real-life LSD bust in rural mid-Wales in 1977, the biggest the world had ever seen. A funny yet thought-provoking script, terrific acid-head soundtrack an...

    • Blues for an Alabama Sky, National Theatre, London. Pearl Cleage was most likely a name unfamiliar to most British theatre lovers, until this scintillating 1995 drama catapulted the African-American playwright to everyone’s attention.
    • The Band’s Visit, Donmar Warehouse, London. This exquisite, multi-Tony Award-winning musical, based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name follows a seemingly simple premise: an Egyptian band on a visit to Israel winds up in the wrong place and must stay there overnight.
    • Cyrano de Bergerac, Harold Pinter Theatre, London. The Jamie Lloyd Company’s radical reinvention of this tragic-romantic 1897 French classic, which knocked West End audiences sideways back in 2019, is astonishing.
    • To Kill a Mockingbird, Gielgud Theatre, London. Harper Lee’s much-loved 1960 novel is a beautiful evocation of a 30s Southern US childhood, a passionate indictment of racism and injustice – and a white-saviour narrative in which black voices are muted.
  2. This “Best of the Best” brings together 2022 Theatre Highlights lists from major UK theatre critics including Susanna Clapp of the Observer, Arifa Akbar of the Guardian, Sam Marlowe of The Stage and Andrzej Lukowski of TimeOut.

  3. Dec 16, 2022 · As 2022 draws to a close, The Stage’s critics pick their top 50 shows of the year: from stunning new writing to fresh spins on the classics, solo shows and epic Shakespeare in London and the...

  4. Dec 29, 2022 · The best theatre of 2022 Jodie Comer’s Prima Facie set a record with its cinema screenings – but where did it place on our critic’s top 10 list?

  5. Dec 28, 2022 · A scintillating political drama, a tender Japanese film adaptation and a reimagined classic musical made our critic’s list.

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