Carrie Kablean Archive

Despite its title this play is about two queens. Two women, two brands of Christianity, and one crown. Scotland’s Mary Stuart and England’s Elizabeth Tudor were cousins, their paternal grandfather was Henry VII. The pursuit of power in Tudor times was a …

May the farce be with you! Sorry, couldn’t resist that. A couple of hours of highly physical comedy, silliness and slapstick – all delivered with split-second timing – will do that to you. Peter Pan does go very wrong, and it’s pure fun and …

Part parody and part black comedy, The Moors is a tightly crafted 80-minute piece that has laugh-out loud moments. The title refers to the windswept landscape that is indelibly associated with the isolated Bronte sisters, and like many a gothic (or mock …

Nine teenage girls from different backgrounds make up the indoor soccer team that is The Wolves. In and out of their training sessions, they argue, they squabble, they are supportive and they are bitchy. Body image and fitness are important. Their conversation …

With a broad sweep of his polished playwright’s pen, David Williamson gives us themes of betrayal, loneliness, treachery, theft, jealousy, mistrust and all kinds of skulduggery in the cut-throat world of entertainment, aka The Big Time. No doubt he has had plenty …

Billed as an ‘hilariously disturbing gothic musical’, Tom Cone’s Herringbone is part vaudeville, part horror and part ghost story. It’s set in Depression-era Alabama and sees eight-year-old George, who has a talent for the stage, become possessed by the spirit of a …

Get ready to lose yourself into another world. Counting and Cracking is an immersive experience that will compel you to think, touch your heart and make you wonder. We’re only just starting 2019 but this play is going to be one of the year’s …

  It’s been a while since I’ve seen either of the films and even longer since I read the book (which was published in 1964), but this all singing, all dancing, all magical production brings it right back. Like Roald Dahl’s best-known …

Slick, professional, baffling, clever, gasp-inducing and all-round top-rate entertainment. The Illusionists is all this more, and even cynics can’t help wondering, “How do they do that?” “Direct from Broadway” says the publicity, but this is a show that looks like it comes …

Poor Annie! The only one of the six characters in the Norman Conquests for whom I can feel any lasting sympathy. I left Round and Round the Garden, hoping she would not have to make do with that man! But to go …