Anyone who has tried to lose a few pounds – and failed – will empathise with Betty, Kelly & Alan, the larger-than-life members of Headingly Super Slimmers who
Patricia Highsmith may not have been the first writer to come up with a story about committing the perfect murder, but her breakout 1950s novel, Strangers On A
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men has had a rough ride since it was first published in 1937 with its coarse, ranch-house, language, violence, racism and misogyny causing
The British Raj and the effects of colonialism would have been uppermost in EM Forster’s mind when he sat down to write his stirring tale of imperialism, prejudice
RSC Imperium. Images by Ikim Yum Politics is a dirty business Mike Poulton follows up his Wolf Hall Tudor epic for the Royal Shakespeare Company with a six-hour
‘Tis the season to remember those less fortunate than ourselves and David Edgar’s stirring new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, doesn’t
Hedda Gabler is arguably one of the great theatrical roles for a woman. Manipulative, destructive, melancholic, she is a maelstrom of negative emotion that infects everyone around her.
It’s more than 30 years since the world fell in love with Jennifer Beals’ bad-ass welder turned dancer, Alex Owens, in the iconic dance movie Flashdance. The stage
The Wales Millennium Centre came of age this week with its first major foray into story-telling on a truly epic scale. Tiger Bay The Musical is the most
If you know anything about pre-war Berlin it is that it was known for its hedonism and excess. Weimar Berlin was the uninhibited party capital of Europe, offering
“What’s the game?” I began to think it might be Monopoly. The volatile Mick in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker seems to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of London’s streets,