Articles by Victoria Rudland
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Knot of the Heart @ Almeida Theatre

David Eldridge’s latest play takes a long, hard look at the nature of addiction and its devastating effects on a middle class family.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Ecstasy @ Hampstead Theatre

A fascinating, heartrending drama about isolation, hardship and frustrated dreams.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark On Sundays

A gently heartbreaking play-within-a-play at the Cock Tavern.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Honest @ The Queen's Head

A foul-mouthed 40-minute monologue (read: rant) from a cynical, immensely likeable young misanthrope.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Moment @ Bush Theatre

A fast-paced comedy drama about guilt, repression and familial responsibility in a neat, polite, middle class world of quiche and meringues.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Preview: Sprint Festival @ Camden People's Theatre

Celebrating the progressive, the playful and the downright peculiar, Sprint looks set to live up to its promise of ‘adventurous experiences in theatre’.

By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Change @ Arcola Theatre

A series of verbatim stories from those living in parts of the world already suffering the consequences of global warming: commendable in its intention, but lacking drama.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Our Private Life @ Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

A black comedy, competently acted, with successful, unconventional stylistic choices...but the story is hackneyed and the writing shallow.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: Penelope @ Hampstead Theatre

Both a violent, immensely comical take on the crudely competitive, bestial nature of men, and a parable about the triumph of truth and love over deceit, trickery and self-interest, Penelope is 85 minutes of your life you won’t regret.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Heretic @ Royal Court

Plays about climate change are all the rage right now, it seems, and if the National’s Greenland was a little dry and statistic-heavy for your taste, you’ll be pleased to find the Royal Court’s efforts a lot more passionate and character-centred.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Preview: Beachy Head @ Jackson's Lane

The 2009 Edinburgh hit from award-winning theatre company, Analogue, promises to be original, exciting and visually stunning.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Shape of Things @ The Gallery Soho

A shocking, thought-provoking examination of the not-so-trifling subjects of art, love and morality.

By Victoria Rudland

Mime Fest Review: Upswing’s ‘Fallen’ @ Purcell Room, QEH

Upswing’s latest venture is an elegant, powerful portrait of loss, longing and a crisis of identity and a cross-discipline amalgamation of aerialism, animation and dance.

By Victoria Rudland

Review: Becky Shaw @ Almeida Theatre

A sharply-written comedy of emotions and relationships at Islington's Almeida Theatre.
By Victoria Rudland

Mime Fest Review: Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl @ The Pit, Barbican Centre

American theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford bring their hugely entertaining, dark satire on corporate life, office politics and human nature to the Barbican as part of the 2011 London International Mime Festival.