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Tom Scutt

April 2022

  • ‘Magnetic force’ … Kayla Meikle in Marys Seacole.

    Marys Seacole review – mystifying drama about caring through the ages

    Despite strong performances, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play zigzags so much that it overshadows the remarkable life at its centre

December 2021

  • Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee in Cabaret.

    The week in theatre: Cabaret, Best of Enemies, Trouble in Mind – review

    Rebecca Frecknall’s Weimar glamfest with Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley goes big and nails it (nearly); James Graham revives a battle of intellectual titans; and Tanya Moodie compels in a satire of the stage

October 2021

  • Arinzé Kene and ace backing singers in Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical.

    The week in theatre: Get Up, Stand Up!; Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry; Love and Other Acts of Violence

    Magnetic Arinzé Kene as Bob Marley powers the West End’s latest jukebox musical

August 2021

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

    Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

July 2021

  • Constellations with Peter Capaldi and Zoe Wanamaker

    The week in theatre: Constellations; Extinct review – the stars are aligned

    The first two of four new casts work their magic differently in Nick Payne’s irresistible multiple realities play

May 2021

  • Eddie Redmayne

    Eddie Redmayne to return to London theatre in Cabaret with Jessie Buckley

    The actor’s first West End role in 10 years will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall in a bespoke recreated Kit Kat Club

December 2020

  • Toheeb Jimoh, Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Elliot Levey, Luke Thallon and Katie Brayben in Nine Lessons and Carols.

    Lockdown culture
    'Holding their nerve': Almeida reopens with play devised during lockdown

    With auditions on Zoom, social distancing on stage and scenes that can be cut if an actor tests positive, Nine Lessons and Carols is a play for Covid times

November 2020

  • An Inspector Calls

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Sets appeal: staggering designs for theatre and dance – in pictures

    We mine the archive of Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton for the great creations of designers including Tim Yip, Rae Smith and Tom Scutt

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

February 2020

  • A ‘kaleidoscopic variety of tone’ … playwright Lucy Prebble.

    Lucy Prebble wins inaugural Michael Billington award for best new play

    Prebble’s play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian’s former chief theatre critic, at the Critics’ Circle awards

February 2019

  • An axe, a music box and a cabbage with a knife in it … Tom Brooke in rehearsals for Berberian Sound Studio, directed by Tom Scutt.

    'The man controls the woman’s voice': why Berberian Sound Studio is horribly apt

    The story of a sound engineer recording effects for an Italian horror film is coming to the Donmar Warehouse. It’s not a gorefest, say its director and writer
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