Articles by Victoria Rudland
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Reasons To Be Pretty

LaBute’s warm play shows us how destructive it can be to place such a high value on physical beauty.
By Victoria Rudland

Ticket Alert: The Sisters: Return To The Isle Of Queef!

The Feral Pigeons bring their riotous debut show to the Leicester Square Theatre – not to be missed
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: My City @ Almeida

Though intended as a ‘celebration of the power of storytelling’, Poliakoff’s drama is, unfortunately, rather dull.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Kitchen @ National Theatre

Arnold Wesker’s two-acter – first staged at the Royal Court in 1959 – is ably and imaginatively directed by Bijan Sheibani.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Tempest @ Theatre Royal Haymarket

If you can embrace the play’s sugary, sentimental moments, Fiennes’ performance is a damn good ‘un and well worth catching if you can.
By Victoria Rudland

Alternative London Workouts #17: Burlesque

If your self-confidence could do with a workout, as well as your glutes, this is definitely for you…
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Loyalty @ Hampstead Theatre

Helm’s debut play about the Iraq war is intelligent and it makes you laugh, usually bitterly. But if it was intended to shock, it rather falls short – if only because the events of the play are no more appalling than the facts.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Doctor Faustus @ Shakespeare's Globe

In this its first production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the Globe stages quite the spectacle - but its humour falls a little flat...
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Betrayal @ The Comedy Theatre

Eschewing the clichés of high drama, Ian Rickson’s excellent production of Pinter's 1978 play remains solidly down to earth, accurate and honest.

By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Operation Greenfield @ Soho Theatre

Wonderfully ingenuous, this winsome story about friendship, growing up and the first stirrings of desire is a joy.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: A Delicate Balance @ The Almeida

The Almeida tops off an excellent season with James MacDonald’s faultless production and a first-rate ensemble cast that blows your socks off.
By Victoria Rudland

Alternative London Workouts #16: Aerial Fitness

A fantastic and hugely fun way to get fit that basically amounts to… playing. Hurrah! But be warned: it will make you want to run away and join the circus.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Macbeth @ Clerkenwell House of Detention

The Scottish play, standing up in a dark, dank prison.

By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: London Road @ Cottesloe, National Theatre

An astonishing achievement, this brilliant, very human play brings both Blythe’s signature verbatim technique and the concept of musical theatre to a whole new level
By Victoria Rudland

Opera Review: The Coronation of Poppea @ The King's Head

Ferocious lust, ruthless ambition and violent murder is the order of the day in Mark Ravenhill’s production
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Brontë @ Tricycle Theatre

A visually spellbinding production; imaginative in its conception and inspired in execution.

By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: A Cavalier For Milady @ The Cock Tavern

The second of a pair of previously unproduced works by Tennessee Williams depicts his own mother and his beloved, schizophrenic sister.

By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Holy Rosenbergs @ National Theatre, Cottesloe

A fine, well-constructed new play from Ryan Craig, if a little conventional in places...