Keith Mckenna

London reviewer

Reviews

Features

Milk at the South Bank Centre

Palestine comes to London

Keith Mckenna looks at upcoming Palestinian theatre productions coming to the UK.
Figures in Extinction

EIF 2025 "seeks the truth"

The Edinburgh International Festival 2025 adopts the slogan "The Truth We Seek" and continues its partnership with Baillie Gifford.
Danny Sapani in the title role of the Almeida's King Lear, with Clarke Peters as the Fool

Theatre and Social Change in 2024

Keith Mckenna looks back on the theatre he saw in 2024 with a political purpose.
Gemilla Shamruk as Iman in Conversations with My Father

Palestine play taken off Rota

Keith Mckenna wonders why a piece he reviewed positively was removed from Chickenshed's latest evening of short plays.
Tash Brown

Reimagining the Theatre Archive

The Royal Court Theatre’s project to transform its theatre archive raises questions about what has been remembered, what has been ignored and what has been forgotten.
Jojo Morrall as Rosa Parks in Chickenshed's Blowin' in the Wind

Black Lives Matter on stage

Keith McKenna revisits some of the plays performed in recent years that are linked in various ways to the Black Lives Matter protests.

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