Nick Payne’s latest play is a tough watch. It doesn’t deliver a straightforward sucker punch…

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I caught the world première of the English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal’s co-production…

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We’ve known for some time that white British students, particularly white, working-class boys, are among…

“As far as I’m concerned, The Caretaker is funny, up to a point. Beyond that…

Shakespeare made it easy. If the play ended with a marriage, it was a comedy.…

Warm and cosy, rather like a Miss Marple without the murder, whilst Terrence Rattigan’s Flare…

The estimable English Touring Theatre normally produce revivals of plays that make for, if nothing…

There is something inherently British about the way we delight in farce. Perhaps it is…

The Donmar’s current production opens in a naval hospital with heavy overtones of an asylum.…