Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
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Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In 2012, the actor and biographer Ian Kelly published a brilliant account of the life…
Future Conditional
It was halfway through Future Conditional that I knew playwright Tamsin Oglesby must have gone…
Jane Eyre
This experimental new play at the Lyttleton Theatre, an adaptation of arguably the greatest Victorian…
Our Country’s Good
It’s always a difficult decision for an artistic director as to how long he or…
Splendour
Prepare for a strong sense of déjà vu and scintillating performances from the all-female cast…
Talking Heads
I’ll come straight to the point; this new touring production of a trio of Alan…
For Services Rendered
While the acknowledged master of the ‘well-made play’ Terence Rattigan has been having a deserved…
Bakkhai at the Almeida
Continuing the Almeida’s Greeks season, Ben Whishaw stars in a proficient albeit rather anti-climactic staging…
Three Days in the Country
It is a truth semi-universally acknowledged that Russian drama is tricky to stage for an…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Subtitled ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was…