Angela Lord

The adjective “steamy” is often used to describe the plays of Tennessee Williams, as they lift the lid on simmering passions and heated exchanges in sub-tropical settings. The Night of the Iguana, set in a run-down coastal town in the Mexican rainforest, is no exception. It’s hard enough to keep your cool in such a … Read more Review of The Night Of The Iguana at the Noël Coward Theatre

Betrayal tells the tale of a covert romance from a reverse perspective. Rather than showing a couple falling in and out of love, it shows them falling out of love and back in again, charting the course of a seven-year affair from 1977 to 1968, with a backward glance at life’s little ironies. The casting … Read more Betrayal by Harold Pinter at the Harold Pinter Theatre

A star-studded cast has been assembled for Pinter at the Pinter, a season of short plays which shows the work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer in a new light. If you haven’t seen Pinter before, this would be a good place to start, and if you have, this collection gives a fresh insight into the … Read more Pinter Three: Landscape – A Kind of Alaska – Monologue