Tag Archives: Adam Cork

Danton’s Death, National Theatre, NT Olivier, August 2010

… something of a Monty Python feel to the whole thing, except that it wasn’t funny. It was dull and unrelenting, and while Toby Stephens’ extremely emotive portrayal of Danton may have been convincing, it didn’t elicit my sympathy.

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Hamlet, Donmar production, Wyndham’s Theatre, August 2009

Altogether this was a good production, well worth seeing, but I wish Hamlet’s speeches had been given with less force and more subtlety.

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Phèdre, National Theatre, June 2009

In this performance, Phèdre was played by Helen Mirren, portraying an insecure woman only too conscious of her own inadequacies.

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