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Blanche McIntyre

June 2024

  • Samantha Spiro (left) and Siubhan Harrison in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Royal Shakespeare theatre.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor review – belting revenge comedy in modern middle England

    Blanche McIntyre’s Midas-touched production is set in the present day and finds delirious comedy in its class divisions

November 2022

  • Jasmine Blackborow as Anna in Super High Resolution at Soho theatre, London.

    Super High Resolution review – compelling exploration of a crumbling NHS

    Directed by Blanche McIntyre, Nathan Ellis’s drama serves as a reminder of what cuts are doing to our health service but it tells more than it shows

September 2022

  • Olivier Hubard and Ferdy Roberts in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe (credit Marc Brenner)

    To be or not to be cancelled: how directors deal with Shakespeare’s problematic side

    Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works

August 2022

  • Jamie Wilkes (Parolles) All's Well That Ends Well production photo 2022

    All’s Well That Ends Well review – an uneven take on Shakespeare’s most puzzling play

    Jamie Wilkes’s Parolles steals the show in Blanche McIntyre’s unromantic, social media-inflected production

May 2022

  • From left, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Michael Grady-Hall, Kelly Gough, 
Anne-Marie Duff, Daniel Millar and 
Stuart McQuarrie in The House of Shades.

    The week in theatre: The House of Shades; My Fair Lady; The Breach

  • Anne-Marie Duff and Carol MacReady in The House of Shades

    The House of Shades review – Anne-Marie Duff gives a toxic tour de force

April 2022

  • Michael Billington

    It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

    Michael Billington
    Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

December 2021

  • l-r Ella Dacres (Alice Parslow), Pip Carter (Gerard Bonneville), Julie Atherton (Hyena) in Book of Dust.

    The week in theatre: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage; Life of Pi; Measure for Measure

  • Hattie Ladbury and Gyuri Sarossy in Measure for Measure.

    Measure for Measure review – Shakespeare’s problem play gets a 1970s makeover

February 2021

  • Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani in Hymn at the Almeida.

    Lockdown culture
    The week in theatre: Hymn; Typical review – first-rate and perfectly balanced

    Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani work as one in Lolita Chakrabarti’s brilliantly realised study of male friendship

February 2019

  • Denis O’Hare and Olivia Williams in Tartuffe at the National’s Lyttelton theatre, London.

    Tartuffe: The Imposter review – a radical Molière for an era of inequality

    In John Donnelly’s new translation, the great comedy is less about religion and more a sharply characterised study of bourgeois guilt

September 2018

  • Paul Nicholls in Foxfinder.

    Foxfinder review – Dawn King’s dystopia is defanged by a jarring cast

  • Women In Power Production Photos ©The Other Richard

    Women in Power review – rude, raucous reboot of radical Greek comedy

June 2018

  • Knowingly dissonant … Bohemian lovers Florizel and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale.

    The Winter’s Tale review – Blanche McIntyre celebrates the play's problems

    A superb cast deliver striking performances in a production that is knowingly dissonant, from the costumes to the climax

April 2018

  • Samuel West and Romola Garai in Ella Hickson’s divisive new play The Writer.

    The week in theatre: The Writer; Absolute Hell – review

  • The Writer at the Almeida. Romola Garai. Photo credit Manuel Harlan (11)

    The Writer review – Romola Garai blazes into the battlefield of desire

December 2017

  • Unspoken love … The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth.

    Best culture 2017
    Michael Billington's top 10 theatre of 2017

    Imelda Staunton simmered, Sondheim’s showgirls sizzled, Bryan Cranston gave us a cathode-ray Lear, and Jez Butterworth found love in the time of hunger-strikes

October 2017

  • John Hollingworth and Jonathan Broadbent in Round and Round the Garden from The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn.

    The Norman Conquests review – Ayckbourn's weekenders get lost in longing

    Blanche McIntyre’s mordantly comic revival of the 1973 trilogy spotlights the plays’ sadnesses along with their orgiastic frenzies

August 2016

  • ‘We are one another’s wife’ … Jamie Wilkes and James Corrigan as Arcite and Palamon in Two Noble Kinsmen.

    The Two Noble Kinsmen review – rarely staged bromance returns to the RSC

    Blanche McIntyre’s RSC debut underscores the erotic strangeness of Shakespeare’s jointly authored final play – but doesn’t solve all its problems

November 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Comedy of Errors clip

    Comedy of Errors: swinging and sparring at Shakespeare's Globe – video

    Blanche McIntyre’s staging of Shakespeare’s farce was deemed “near perfection” at the Globe. In this clip from the DVD, out now, Matthew Needham and Jamie Wilkes sling words and sea creatures at each other
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