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Maria Aberg

April 2021

  • Top row, left-right: Naomi Sheldon, Tsion Habte and Juno Dawson. Bottom row: Lemn Sissay, Tom Rhys Harries and Emmanuella Cole.

    Lockdown culture
    The Motherhood Project review – difficult choices, disparate voices

    This set of 15 monologues – from writers including Lemn Sissay, Jodi Gray and Juno Dawson – is heartfelt but feels underpowered

March 2021

  • Maria Aberg in the south of Sweden where she grew up.

    'Solidarity in Europe': Maria Aberg's international theatre company looks ahead

    The acclaimed Swedish director’s Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers

October 2019

  • BLANK, Donmar Warehouse, Oct 2019 10. Ayesha-Antoine-and-the-company-in-[BLANK]-at-the-Donmar-Warehouse.-Director-Maria-Aberg,-Designer-Rosie-Elnile.-Photo-Helen-Maybanks-162

    [Blank] review – Alice Birch's build-your-own-play experiment

    The playwright throws down the gauntlet to directors, and the result is a show full of ideas but lacking unity

November 2018

  • Katie West as Ophelia and Maxine Peake as Hamlet

    All the women players: cross-gender Shakespeare – in pictures

    Kathryn Hunter is about to play the RSC’s first Lady Timon of Athens and next year the Globe is staging Richard II with a company of women of colour. Here’s a look back at some of the many actresses who have taken major male roles in Shakespeare’s plays

September 2018

  • Karla Crome in Dance Nation at the Almeida.

    The week in theatre: Dance Nation; Little Shop of Horrors; King Arthur – review

    Adults act up as children in Clare Barron’s acute new study of adolescence. And a man-eating plant, played by a drag queen, feels at home in the park

March 2018

  • The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi review – so bloody you need a blanket


    The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg’s staging of Webster’s Jacobean tragedy – a brutal tale of female defiance

January 2018

  • Mark Lawson

    Politics, star power and prison Shakespeare: how Josie Rourke rocked the Donmar

    Mark Lawson
    Rourke, who will leave the London theatre in 2019, staged perky experiments, rapid-fire responses and invigorating revivals. Who will take her place?

September 2017

  • Erica Whyman

    RSC chooses female directors for all plays in summer 2018 season

    Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director says decision to name first ever all-woman lineup was not a deliberate act

May 2017

  • The Suicide at the Lyttelton theatre

    Stage plight: directors and designers on handling Britain's trickiest theatres

    ‘Inhumane’ proportions, nightmarish sightlines, minuscule playing space … Top theatre figures discuss the perils – and joys – of the Swan, Lyttelton, Wanamaker Playhouse and Royal Exchange stages

December 2016

  • Fantastic Mr Fox at Nuffield Southampton Theatres. Jade Croot (Kit), Greg Barnett (Mr Fox) and Lillie Flynn (Mrs Fox). Photo credit Manuel Harlan (3)

    Fantastic Mr Fox review – brave take on Roald Dahl could be foxier

    Expanding on Dahl’s original cast of characters, the show leads us into interesting territory but loses its nerve and mixes its messages

July 2016

  • Cyrano de Bergerac, 1997

    The RSC's Swan theatre: 30 years of intimate encounters – in pictures

    The Swan theatre is celebrating its 30th birthday. Take a look at three decades of shows that have graced its distinctive deep-thrust stage, starring actors such as Jeremy Irons, Lydia Leonard, Mark Rylance and Harriet Walter

February 2016

  • Oliver Ryan as Faustus and Sandy Grierson as Mephistophilis

    Your own personal demon: Maria Aberg on her Doctor Faustus double act

  • Doctor Faustus production photos - February 2016 Sandy Grierson (centre front) as Mephistophilis, Company **Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Doctor Faustus and Mephistophilis: the decision of who plays which role is decided at the beginning of each performance**

    Doctor Faustus review – devilish ritual and punk cabaret at the RSC

March 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Maria Aberg on Shakespeare – video

    Maria Aberg on Shakespeare: 'Realism is always going to trip us up' – video

    Maria Aberg, whose RSC productions include King John and As You Like It, explains why we must stop thinking naturalistically about casting Shakespeare's plays

August 2014

  • The White Devil

    The White Devil review – splashy rather than searing

  • Kirsty Bushell (Vittoria) and David Sturzaker (Bracciano) in The White Devil at the Swan, Stratford.

    The White Devil review – putting the patriarchy on trial

April 2014

  • Sound of the police … Sandy Foster as Dogberry, left, and Beverly Rudd as Verges in Much Ado About N

    Much Ado About Nothing review – postwar take on battle of the sexes

    Spirits are high in this make-do-and-mend era revamp of Shakespeare's comedy, with a tartly played antipathy between Beatrice and Benedick, writes Alfred Hickling

July 2012

  • Michael Boyd

    Michael Boyd's last RSC season will be 'celebration of women in theatre'

    Lucy Bailey, Maria Aberg, Nancy Meckler, Emma Rice and Lyndsey Turner will all direct plays next summer

June 2012

  • Antony and Cleopatra Kim Cattrall Jeffery Kissoon

    Actors' union rallies theatres to create more parts for women

    Janet Suzman among high-profile thespians highlighting lack of opportunity that reflects wider imbalance in society

April 2012

  • Pippa Nixon as the Bastard in King John

    RSC's King John throws women into battle

    Shakespeare lived in a man's world – but the RSC is recasting his 'battle play' King John with women in the thick of the action. Maddy Costa reports
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