There’s something you need to know about me. It’s wonderful when a small, unpretentious, play is thrust into the limelight. Rotterdam, which follows the crazy, mixed-up and confusing
After a week of jury service I was ideally prepared to sit in judgement, both as a critic and as a “juror,” over the Lyric Hammersmith’s courtroom drama,
There is never a better time to push out a new political satire during these uncertain days, with the government, its MPs and leaders constantly under scrutiny for
Watching Emma Rice’s brilliantly conceived romantic tragedy, Tristan & Yseult, which is playing at Shakespeare’s Globe this week, it is blindingly obvious why the powers-that-be hired her to
It has been 57 years since Edna O’Brien wrote her debut novel, The Country Girls, and it so shocked 1960s Ireland that it was promptly banned. Despite the
Slipping into another actor’s shoes can’t ever be easy. Nicholas Woodeson stepped up to the plate to replace – as if anyone could – Tim Pigott-Smith – in
Sex and booze flow through Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird Of Youth which opened tonight at Chichester Festival Theatre but their intoxication fail to raise the spirits of the
Owen Horsley has taken the bold step of casting Matthew Tennyson as literature’s epitome of unbridled passion and desire, Salomé, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 90 minute production
American social commentator, broadcaster and historian Studs Terkel spent his life talking to the working classes and, through his beautifully observed interviews, picked up a Pulitzer for describing
