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Yard theatre

May 2024

  • Luca Kamleh Chapman as Khaled and Rosa Robson as Sarah in Multiple Casualty Incident.

    Multiple Casualty Incident review – thorny questions in humanitarian aid drama

    Even in times of peace, the medical staff training to go into a war zone can’t avoid conflict in Sami Ibrahim’s engaging play

February 2024

  • Fode Simbo as Samuel in Samuel Takes a Break.

    Samuel Takes a Break review – a stomach-churning tourist trip around an old slave castle

    Yard theatre, London
    A Ghanaian tour guide struggles to maintain his composure in the face of historical ignorance and requests for selfies, in Rhianna Ilube’s poignant critique of colonialism and tourism

October 2023

  • Alistair Nwachukwu, Terique Jarrett, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Jyuddah James, Khalid Daley. in Choir Boy, the Bristol Old Vic

    The week in theatre: Choir Boy; Portia Coughlan; The Flea – review

  • Assorted aristos … Sonny Poon Tip and Séamus McLean Ross in The Flea.

    The Flea review – royal scandal becomes a satirical pantomime

September 2022

  • A scene from Handbagged by Moira Buffini @ Kiln Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

  • The Cherry Orchard by Vinay Patel.

    The Cherry Orchard review – Chekhov in space

May 2020

  • Housebound The Yard Theatre

    Lockdown culture
    Yard Online review – switch on your mobile and take a seat on your toilet

    This all-day online festival included a one-to-one performance over the phone, a Ghanaian cook-along and a virtual after-party

November 2018

  • Jess Latowicki in Super Duper Close Up at the Yard theatre, London.

    Super Duper Close Up review – turning a lens on anxiety in the internet age

    The latest from theatre company Made in China is an arresting monologue about an actor prone to panic attacks and phone addiction

October 2018

  • Wendy Kweh in A Kettle of Fish

    A Kettle of Fish review – unnerving tale for an age of anxiety

    In Brad Birch’s play, a protagonist shares the space with huge projected images in an exploration of information overload

July 2018

  • A NEW AND BETTER YOU by Joe Harbot ; Directed by Cheryl Gallacher ; Set Design by Bethany Wells ; Lighting design by Jess Bernberg ; The Yard Theatre ; London UK ; 26 June 2018 ; Credit and Copyright: Helen Murray ;

    A New and Better You review – internet celebrity skewered

    An exercise-obsessed young woman sweats to become an online star in Joe Harbot’s anarchic play

April 2018

  • Dylan Lubo and Kiki Bowen in The Act by Company Three at the Yard theatre

    'We've got braver': The Act, a show about love and sex created by teenagers

    Company Three devised a play to examine intimacy, relationships and social pressure for young people, from their own point of view

March 2018

  • Buggy Baby

    Buggy Baby review – beware the bazooka-toting bunnies

    Josh Azouz’s horror-tinged play, with an eight-month-old baby played by an adult, comes over like surrealistic Harold Pinter

November 2017

  • This Beautiful Future by Rita Kalnejais at The Yard Directed by Jay Miller Designed by Cecile Tremolieres Composed by Jonah Brody Lighting Design by Christopher Nairne Sound Design by Josh Anio Grigg Cast Elodie - Abigail Laurie Otto - Tom Morley Paul Haley Alwyne Taylor

    This Beautiful Future review – delicate, ambiguous and forceful

    Jay Miller directs an exemplary production of Rita Kalnejais’s bittersweet love story set in occupied France

May 2017

  • Hannah Millward and Bradley Hall in This Beautiful Future at the Yard.

    This Beautiful Future review – exquisite portrait of young love in the heat of war

    A French teenager and a German boy soldier are unselfconscious lovers in this idiosyncratic fable set in occupied France

March 2017

  • Debra Baker and Jessye Romeo in Big Guns by Nina Segal @ The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick. Directed by Dan Hutton (Opening 24-03-17) ©Tristram Kenton 03-17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Big Guns review – fear and self-loathing in Nina Segal's horror show

    The bogeyman is everywhere in this nervy play whose characters present a series of attitudes that reflect ourselves back to us

November 2016

  • Clare Perkins as Beatrice and Barnaby Power as George in Removal Men

    Songs from the detention centre: the drama set on immigration's frontline

    Developed at London’s dynamic Yard theatre, Removal Men is a musical tragicomedy that gives an eye-opening portrait of detention officers’ work. Its creators, MJ Harding and Jay Miller, explain how it captures a fractured Britain

June 2016

  • Karaoke Court artist Jack Tan Jack at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore 2015.

    Karaoke Court: let Craig David and the Carpenters settle your arguments

    Bored with your husband? Cross at a parental curfew? Artist Jack Tan can help solve your domestic disputes – but first you’ll have to sing a round of East 17

March 2016

  • Haley McGee, Mia Soteriou and Anjali Mya Chadha in Made Visible by Deborah Pearson at The Yard theatre.

    Made Visible review – scrutiny of white privilege is funny and frank

  • Deborah Pearson

    Deborah Pearson: 'It's about using my privilege to amplify other voices'

February 2016

  • Re: Home at the Yard

    Re:Home review – the tower block kids who fell to Earth

    Cressida Brown has returned to the notorious estate she tackled in 2006’s Home. But this lacks the focus of her original, performed in a now-gone high rise
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