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Theatre

Young Vic's Golem: its status as a cult hit fills me with troubled wonder

Plus: a play involving audience participation at the Southwark Playhouse that makes Lloyd Evans want to participate and end the show

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

Golem

Young Vic, until 31 January

The Dragon

Southwark Playhouse, until 10 January

The Young Vic produces shows that please many but rarely me. Its big hit of 2014, A Streetcar Named Desire, won virtually every prize going apart from the one it deserved: the year’s deadliest assault on a much-loved classic. The modernised setting offered us a tactless, shirty Blanche DuBois, played by Gillian Anderson as a stupefied boob-job victim searching for a rich jerk to bankrupt.

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