Review: The Waves at Jermyn Street Theatre

Review: The Waves at Jermyn Street Theatre

Nowhere to Hide — and Nowhere Else You’d Rather Be There is a moment early in The Waves at Jermyn Street Theatre when you realise the actors have absolutely nowhere to retreat to. The space is so intimate, so stripped of artifice, that even the theatre’s single toilet opens directly off the stage. What follows is 95 uninterrupted minutes of ensemble theatre at its most exposed — and its most extraordinary, writes Katie Kelly. This production tak…

The Waves – Jermyn Street Theatre

Virginia Woolf’s poetic, genre-resistent novel The Waves might not feel like an obvious candidate for a theatrical adaptation, but Flora Wilson Brown takes on the challenge with aplomb in this excellent new production at Jermyn Street Theatre. Director Júlia Levai reimagines the lives of friends Rhoda, Bernard, Susan, Neville, Jinny, and Louis in a loosely ambiguous time period, set against Tomás Palmer’s stark, metallic set design that becomes …