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Tom Morris

May 2024

  • Seth Numrich with his hand resting on the head of a giant puppet horse.

    Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

    An ex-ENO artistic head and the co-director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis

December 2022

  • The nine-strong ensemble in The Nutcracker.

    The Nutcracker review – modernised magic

    The final production from outgoing artistic director Tom Morris draws fresh weirdness from ETA Hoffmann’s source story

February 2022

  • Tom Morris of Bristol Old Vic

    ‘I was right to speak out on how slavery funded Bristol Old Vic,’ says departing artistic director

    Tom Morris explains why he had to antagonise some of its donors in his effort to drive change

November 2019

  • Angus Yellowlees (Simon) and Josh Williams (Joe) in Touching The Void by Joe Simpson @ Duke of Yorks. Directed by Tom Morris. (Opening 14-11-19) ©Tristram Kenton 11/19 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Touching the Void proves anything is possible in the theatre

    David Greig’s survival-story adaptation has clawed its way to the West End – and it is a triumph of resolve and innovation

August 2019

  • Sydney Mancasola (Bess McNeill), Duncan Rock (Jan Nyman) and company in Breaking the Waves.

    The week in classical: Breaking the Waves; Eugene Onegin – review

  • Richard Brooks

    Is Rufus Norris’s run at the National drawing to a close?

    Richard Brooks

July 2019

  • Tom Morris

    Tom Morris: ‘We need to grasp the extraordinary creativity of this country’

    The theatre director on adapting Touching the Void for the stage, and Breaking the Waves as an opera

September 2018

  • Edward Hayter and Josh Williams in rehearsals for Touching the Void, the first production at the reopened auditorium.

    New life for historic theatre as it faces up to ‘slave trade’ past

  • Joe Simpson's fateful climb re-created in the film Touching the Void.

    'We need to hear bone splintering!' – Touching the Void crashes on to the stage

December 2017

  • The Grinning Man at the Trafalgar Studios.

    The Grinning Man review – the greatest freakshow in town

    Victor Hugo’s disfigured hero is transplanted to London in an energetic show that boasts resonant music and miraculous puppetry

October 2016

  • Julian Bleach in The Grinning Man.

    The Grinning Man review – lovely, peculiar stuff

    Tom Morris combines macabre fairytale, musical and puppetry in this ingenious tale of twisted love
  • Louis Maskell as Grinpayne in The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic.

    The Grinning Man review – Victor Hugo musical is wonderfully weird

    Circus freaks, puppets and soaring songs collide in a new adaptation that deftly walks a tightrope between romantic and grotesque
  • Louis Maskell as Grinpayne in The Grinning Man

    'T​his isn’t exactly Les Mis is it?': backstage at twisted musical The Grinning Man

    For Bristol Old Vic’s 250th anniversary, War Horse director Tom Morris is putting on a tragicomedy based on a Victor Hugo novel. In this diary he explains what it’s like to manage a ‘wild team of geniuses’ on a new British musical

September 2016

  • The puppeteers in rehearsal for The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic

    War Horse director pulls the strings to stage puppet version of Victor Hugo tale

    Tom Morris is hoping to repeat his success with the first world war classic story in a new play at the Bristol Old Vic

July 2016

  • ‘A thoughtful Lear’: Timothy West with Poppy Pedder as Cordelia.

    King Lear review – newly and bitingly prophetic

    Timothy West is a thoughtful Lear in Tom Morris’s galvanic production

June 2016

  • A nation in chaos … King Lear at Bristol Old Vic.

    King Lear review – Timothy West's foolish ruler divides a nation

    The generations are at war in this stunningly timely tale of political turmoil, with West delivering an intelligent performance as Shakespeare’s tragic ruler

December 2015

  • Bristol Old Vic

    250 not out: Bristol Old Vic prepares to celebrate record achievement

    2016 will see the venue become the only theatre in the English-speaking world to reach the age of 250 years

October 2015

  • The Crucible, directed by Tom Morris, at Bristol Old Vic.

    The Crucible review – moves to the beat of a courtroom drama

  • The Crucible.

    The Crucible review – a plain production of a plain-speaking play

October 2014

  • The Death of Klinghoffer

    The Death of Klinghoffer live Q&A: director Tom Morris answers your questions – as it happened

    The director of the controversial opera, which opened on Monday to protests at the Met in New York, will be online at 1pm ET on Friday. Please post your questions now
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