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Carrie Cracknell

October 2023

  • Mairead McKinley and Alison Oliver in Portia Coughlan, at the Almeida theatre.

    Portia Coughlan review – drama rich with secrets and mourning

    Marina Carr’s play is beautifully bleak and Alison Oliver’s central performance as a woman lost in grief is matched by a mighty cast

July 2020

  • ‘It has a beautiful wisdom and simplicity’ ... Helen McCrory in The Deep Blue Sea.

    Lockdown culture
    Helen McCrory: 'This is a woman's private space, invaded by others'

    As the National Theatre streams a bold revival of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, its star discusses a potent mix of sensuality and torment

June 2020

  • ‘A landmark in the National Theatre’s history’ ... Amy Forrest (Mrs Ryder) and CJ Beckford (Michael) in Small Island.

    Lockdown culture
    National Theatre announces final free streams including Small Island

    The NT’s popular online initiative continues with the ambitious 2019 adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Windrush novel and four more shows

March 2020

  • Blessed by the theatrical gods … Clockwise from top left: Brian Cox, Cush Jumbo, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Tom Stoppard and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

    Stage struck: Tom Stoppard, Cush Jumbo, Brian Cox and more on the magic of theatre

    To mark World Theatre Day, leading playwrights, actors and directors share some of their favourite moments

June 2018

  • Julie at the National Theatre

    Julie review – Polly Stenham's modern take on Strindberg misses the mark

    The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby impresses but this updated version of the class-conscious tragedy is overblown

June 2016

  • ‘An indelible performance’: Helen McCrory in The Deep Blue Sea.

    The Deep Blue Sea review – an explosive revival

  • Tom Burke, Helen McCrory in The Deep Blue Sea. Image by Richard Smiththe

    The Deep Blue Sea review – Helen McCrory blazes in passionate revival

December 2015

  • John Heffernan as Macbeth, with Anna Maxwell Martin as Lady Macbeth

    Macbeth review – a giddy dance

    Shakespeare’s most exciting play is hampered by too much visual distraction

August 2015

  • Steely … Anna Maxwell Martin.

    Anna Maxwell Martin to star as Lady Macbeth at London's Young Vic

    Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin will stage the gory tragedy with a company of actors and dancers

March 2015

  • ‘Animality’: Helen McCrory as Medea in the National Theatre’s production which ran from July to Sept

    Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay, 2014: National Theatre’s Medea by Shahidha Bari

    The £2,000 prize for the best arts journalism essay in 2014 went to a powerful review of the National’s Medea, starring Helen McCrory

17 November 2014

  • Carrie Cracknell, left, and Katherine Parkinson during the filming of Britain's Not Eating.

    Off the page: microplays from the Royal Court and the Guardian
    Food for thought: making the Guardian and the Royal Court's first microplay

    Britain Isn’t Eating takes aim at the coalition government’s approach to food banks and the ‘feckless poor’. Theatre director Carrie Cracknell and social affairs writer Amelia Gentleman explain how they cooked up the play’s store-cupboard challenge
  • Britain Isn't Eating

    Off the page: microplays from the Royal Court and the Guardian
    Britain Isn't Eating: a microplay by the Guardian and the Royal Court – video

    A politician learns an uncomfortable truth about food-bank Britain. Katherine Parkinson stars in a microplay written by Laura Wade and directed by Carrie Cracknell

  • Royal Court micro play

    Off the page: microplays from the Royal Court and the Guardian
    The Royal Court meets the Guardian in microplays series – video

    The Guardian's Chris Wiegand and Caspar Llewellyn Smith and the Royal Court's Vicky Featherstone discuss Off the Page, a unique series of 'microplays' uniting theatre and journalism

July 2014

  • Helen McCrory and Danny Sapani in Medea

    Medea review – Carrie Cracknell's version is a tragic force to be reckoned with

  • Lucy Guerin and Carrie Cracknell

    Carrie Cracknell: my Medea needed some killer moves

May 2014

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    Goldfrapp to score Medea at the National Theatre

    The electronic pop duo are to score a production of Medea starring Helen McCrory, and directed by Carrie Cracknell

January 2014

July 2013

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    Carrie Cracknell: 'It's like bringing people into your dream'

    The gifted young director talks to Kate Kellaway about Ibsen, the entrapment of women, and why she loves to be in control

May 2013

  • wozzeck

    Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review

    Carrie Cracknell's bold production at the ENO leaves the audience stunned by its haunting and powerful message, writes Kate Kellaway

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