According to Marx, we’re doomed to repeat events in the theatre of history, first as tragedy, then as farce. Enda Walsh’s play takes place in a London council flat – designer...
Following a terrorist attack, Khaled, an American citizen of Arab extraction, finds himself under interrogation in his home. As two government agents examine the mostly anodyne and entirely legal...
Welcome to Ramallah? Welcome to a clunking set-up. ‘I thought you should meet people, get a sense of the place,’ says Palestine resident Mara, as her Zionist sister Nat arrives for a...
Václav Havel is a hero of the Cold War; a man of courage who refused to be cowed, whose absurdist masterpieces were banned in his home country of Czechoslovakia. After the Velvet Revolution,...
Guided by the gentle hand of Greek folklore, ‘Karagiozes Exposed’ is an enjoyable, if not slightly deranged, hour of free-wheeling puppet-based anarchy. Using live folk music (led by...
Fancy being a fly on the wall in a Bournemouth brothel? Alecky Blythe’s new piece of verbatim theatre – where the actresses copy prostitutes interviewed by Blythe while hearing their...
As the frontman to The Kinks, Ray Davies wrote many classic songs in which the lyrics are distinctive for their social detail and their ability to tell a story, a useful skill when it comes to...
‘In an ideal world I’d see you eliminated. In this world I need you more than anyone.’ Such is the premise of David Gow’s award-winning two-hander in which Mike Downey, a...
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