Actors often improvise in the rehearsal room but it takes some guts to go onstage every night without a script or a story in front of an audience. It’s scary enough to watch, let alone to be...
From the opening moments, when the heroine’s body is hauled away from the gas fire (head lolling, dress riding above stocking tops) and slapped awake in front of nosy neighbours, Edward...
Quinn, a fine-art painter but also a relentless home redecorator, shares the house left to him by his mother with a lodger. The latter, Moore, is a dapper pinstriped suit-wearing...
You’ve read the book, you’ve seen the film, now comes taste the stage version… Actually, if you don’t speak Spanish, it might be a good idea if you did acquaint yourself...
How you bring the magnitude of the transatlantic slave trade to the small stage is a question relatively few theatremakers have dared to answer; successfully, even fewer still. And as last...
When Pinter’s play first opened at the Lyric, famously, Harold Hobson was the only critic who recognised the young dramatist’s promise. Fifty years on, and you can still see why all the...
This short run at the Roundhouse is a well-earned lap of honour for Michael Boyd’s ‘Henry VI’ trilogy, and for the 34 actors who’ve spent the past two years stabbing,...
Playwright Levi David Addai has brought the genre of the work play up to date by choosing as his setting one of those Oxford Street sports shops that lurk just round the corner from our offices;...
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