Maisie Johnson

Maisie has just graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA Hons in English Literature. Alongside her experience as a theatre critic, Maisie is a theatre director and has just returned from a month on tour in the USA directing Macbeth. Maisie spends most of her time pursuing her career in theatre directing, and is beginning to dip her toe into playwriting and stage adaptations of classic stories.

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Maisie Johnson2 weeks ago

Review: I, The Boar, Etcetera Theatre

An intellectual and abstract exploration of love, obsession and ritualisation in sexuality, modelled on the tale of Venus, Adonis, and…
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Maisie Johnson2 weeks ago

Review: Killing Swine, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Killing Swine is a promising ode to Macbeth, performed by a young company full of potential.
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Maisie Johnson1 July 2026

Review: Archduke, Royal Court Theatre

An energetic, morbidly hilarious exploration of radicalisation and impressionable youth, sitting in the shadow of the events that started the…
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Maisie Johnson4 May 2026

Review: Grace Pervades, Theatre Royal Haymarket

A poignant, visually rich sketch of nineteenth and twentieth century theatre.
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Maisie Johnson25 April 2026

Review: The Waves, Jermyn Street Theatre

Flora Wilson Brown's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's The Waves is vibrant and glittering, effortlessly capturing the strange warp and weft…
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Maisie Johnson19 April 2026

Review: Managed Approach, Riverside Studios

This semi-verbatim production is playful, heartfelt and excellently performed – an aptly nuanced and compassionate tribute to the UK's only…
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Maisie Johnson17 April 2026

Review: Quiet Light, Baron’s Court

A ghost story with excellent bones, but also some rough edges.
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Maisie Johnson9 April 2026

Review: TWO, Park Theatre

A funny, fast-paced and heart-wrenching collection of stories all set in a classic British pub.
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Maisie Johnson31 January 2026

Review: The Tempest, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Full of dangerous gambits and forays into farce, Tim Crouch's The Tempest is a daring exercise in meta-theatrical theory.
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Maisie Johnson19 December 2025

Review: Gawain and The Green Knight, The Park Theatre

A hilarious, energetic transformation of this classic poem to a modern office setting, with excellent technical design, although there are…
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