Play
The Curing Room at the Pleasance
David Ian Lee’s grim play builds on an incident recalled in George Steiner’s The Death of Tragedy, where…
By Timothy Bano
Timothy Bano
Published articles
Play
Next Fall at Southwark Playhouse
In a broad, punchline-heavy sitcom style, Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall stomps its way through a gay love story.…
By Timothy Bano
Play
She Stoops To Conquer at the Rose
On the Rose's huge stage is a set like an antique hunting lodge: the heads of stags and…
By Timothy Bano
Musical
Annie Get Your Gun at New Wimbledon
“Roll up, roll up” the trumpet blasts seem to announce as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Circus rolls into…
By Timothy Bano
Play
Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions at the Tabard
Each of the five little plays that comprise Will Eno’s Oh, the Humanity resound with the playwright’s distinctive…
By Timothy Bano
Play
My Girl 2 at the Old Red Lion Theatre
"There's hundreds of thousands worse off than us," says Sam, a working-class social worker, husband to pregnant Anita,…
By Timothy Bano
Theatre
Vikki Stone at London Wonderground
Instrumental is Vikki Stone’s new show, playing for the first time in London before it heads up to…
By Timothy Bano
Theatre
Violent, brutal, biting: An interview with the cast of Hamlet
“Denmark’s a prison” says Hamlet. Director Zoe Ford interprets this line literally in her violent, brutal, biting adaptation.…
By Timothy Bano
Movie
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars is astonishing. Two teenagers suffering from cancer fall in love.…
By Timothy Bano
Play
Henna Night at the New Diorama Theatre
“Depending how I feel tomorrow morning, I'll either slash my wrists or dye my hair”: right from the…
By Timothy Bano