Susannah Clapp
Theatre Critic
Susannah Clapp has been The Observer's theatre critic since 1997. One of the founding editors of the London Review of Books, she has also worked as the theatre critic of Radio 3’s Nightwaves as well as the New Statesman, as a publisher’s reader and editor, and the radio critic of The Sunday Times. She is the author of books about Bruce Chatwin and Angela Carter.
Susannah Clapp
Theatre Critic
Susannah Clapp has been The Observer's theatre critic since 1997. One of the founding editors of the London Review of Books, she has also worked as the theatre critic of Radio 3’s Nightwaves as well as the New Statesman, as a publisher’s reader and editor, and the radio critic of The Sunday Times. She is the author of books about Bruce Chatwin and Angela Carter.
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: two and a half hours of smouldering, slow-burning imagination
Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons is a revelation
Meet the Observers: Susannah Clapp
Porn Play is an unflinching portrayal of self-destructive addiction
Faustus in Africa! is a vivid study of colonialism through puppets
David Harewood finally makes Othello the hero of his own drama
The Unbelievers is a swirling study of catastrophe
Mary Page Marlowe is a disappointing play
A high-speed Hamlet is too fast and too flat
London’s new directions
Simon Stone’s 21st-century Ibsen
Marlowe and Shakespeare are the ultimate double act in Born With Teeth
The new pastoral
Brigadoon is proof musicals are not just about the music
The fall of RBS encapsulates our time of greed
Inter Alia – far from a feminist revolution
The problems of The Winter’s Tale
David Hare’s ode to 150 years of theatre
Intimate Apparel is one of the great American plays
