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Gordon Parsons
macbeth
Theatre Review / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

When the spectacle of gangland violence overwhelms the text, you get the “Scottish play” far removed from RSC founding principles, muses Gordon Parsons

cyrano
Theatre review / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship

m4m
Theatre review / 28 September 2025
28 September 2025

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers

FAT HAM
Theatre Review / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead

Old Persian text
Book Review / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from

2 gents
Theatre Review / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience

winters tale
Theatre review / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

4.48
Theatre review / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today

constant
Theatre review / 4 July 2025
4 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by an unsubtle production of this comedy of upper middle class infidelity

HAMLET
Theatre review / 16 June 2025
16 June 2025

GORDON PARSONS joins a standing ovation for a brilliant production that fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead's music

londres
Books / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025

GORDON PARSONS recommends a gripping account of flawed justice in the case of Pinochet and the Nazi fugitive Walther Rauff

wasteland
Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative