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UNCOVERED: 2 - The Untold Story

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction review - climate change show is provocative but preachy

It’s a Sin’s Lydia West brings vulnerability and likeability to her stage debut

Evening Standard

Boldly not going: zero-travel ‘touring’ play paves the way for eco theatre

Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard review – Katie Mitchell presents the view from the trees

The director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature

The Guardian - UK

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Woman returns to hospital after 35 years to thank surgeon who saved her life as a child

Katie Mitchell was one of the first patients to have a heart-lung transplant in 1987, with doctors at Royal Papworth Hospital believing it could give her an extra four or five years

Daily Mirror

Woman reunited with heart-lung transplant surgeon after 35 years

She underwent the life-changing operation at age 15

The Independent UK

Woman is reunited with her heart-lung transplant surgeon 35 years on

Katie Mitchell had been diagnosed at age 11, in 1983, with Eisenmenger Syndrome, where there is irregular blood flow in the heart and lungs.

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

The Guardian - UK

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The Blue Woman review – tensely atmospheric opera of violence on women

Four singers, four cellists and an actor walking Sarah Everard’s final route combine in Katie Mitchell’s not-quite-hopeful production

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Theodora; OAE: Bach, the Universe and Everything – review

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work allows Handel’s genius to shine through

The Guardian - UK

Theodora review – bombs, a brothel and a brilliant cast

Katie Mitchell’s modern-day staging of Handel’s oratorio is probing but problematic. The cast, however, is one of the finest ever assembled for the work

The Guardian - UK

Theodora at Covent Garden: Katie Mitchell’s production is radical but could be tighter, unlike the frocks

A feminist retelling of Handel’s story mostly makes sense, and highlights the clash of belief systems

Evening Standard

Katie Mitchell interview: ‘With the theatrical canon, you have to look the misogyny in the eye’

Her production of Handel’s Theodora will be the first at the Royal Opera House since its 1750 premiere - but not before Katie Mitchell has gone to battle with the libretto’s misogyny

Evening Standard

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