Rachel Halliburton

Articles By Rachel Halliburton

A Guide For The Homesick, Trafalgar Studios review - warmly funny and deeply moving Friday, 19 October 2018 Read more...	Parents' Evening, Jermyn Street Theatre - chemistry so negligible it's antiseptic Thursday, 11 October 2018 Read more...
Sketching, Wilton's Music Hall, review - less a dynamic babble than a disconsolate babel Wednesday, 03 October 2018 Read more...	Every Day I Make Greatness Happen, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs review - live-wire immediacy Friday, 28 September 2018 Read more...
The Outsider, Print Room at the Coronet review - power in restraint Thursday, 20 September 2018 Read more...	Dance Nation, Almeida Theatre review - a tarantella through the convulsions of the teenage psyche Thursday, 06 September 2018 Read more...
Pericles, National Theatre review - a fizzingly energetic production Monday, 27 August 2018 Read more...	Exit the King, National Theatre review - vivid, brilliant production that somehow leaves you feeling empty Thursday, 26 July 2018 Read more...
A Monster Calls, Old Vic - wild, beautiful theatre that beguiles and bruises Thursday, 19 July 2018 Read more...	As You Like It, Shakespeare in the Squares review - an exuberant celebration of the Summer of Love Wednesday, 04 July 2018 Read more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wilton's Music Hall review - a stereotype-smashing evening of pagan delights Friday, 29 June 2018 Read more...	The Town Hall Affair, The Wooster Group, Barbican review - electric anarchy Friday, 22 June 2018 Read more...
Notes From the Field, Royal Court review - sobering report from the frontline of race Saturday, 16 June 2018 Read more...	Isabelle Huppert reads Marquis de Sade, Queen Elizabeth Hall review - virtue twinned with vice Monday, 11 June 2018 Read more...
'In order to write my book I had to kill Jane Austen' Sunday, 11 March 2018 Read more...	Muhsin Al-Ramli: 'During Saddam’s regime at least we knew who the enemy was' - interview Sunday, 28 May 2017 Read more...

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