Lazarus Theatre

The Elizabethans & Jacobians

The Spanish Tragedy

BY
Josey De Rossi

Lazarus Theatre productions never fail to grab you from the moment you enter the theatre. You step through into a world of mayhem as if stepping through an invisible membrane that divides you from where you've come. At the Blue Elephant Theatre.

Into Shakespeare

King Lear

BY
Josey De Rossi

Magnificent from the outset: I was gripped viscerally and imaginatively from the moment the thunderous music catapulted Lear’s savage kingdom onto the stage.

The Elizabethans & Jacobians

Dido, Queen of Carthage

BY
Josey De Rossi

There’s something quite brilliant about the way Ricky Duke deals with the realisation of poetic language in Dido Queen of Carthage. For me, he seems to work with the metaphors that characterise mythical places and peoples with a boldness of approach that is quite breathtaking.

Theatre Businesses

Oedipus – After Sophocles

BY
Josey De Rossi

The choice to stage Oedipus seems obvious… it’s a great play. Ricky Duke’s carefully choreographed and nuanced realisation of the play enlivens a sense of the heroic.  He does this by setting Oedipus on his calamitous path in a political maelstrom.