Farinelli and the King
Mark Rylance, hailed as one of the greatest stage actors of a generation, is an…
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Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
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…