Fifty years ago John Osborne’s forceful rant against the inertia of post-war Britain opened at the Royal Court. Alexander Gilmour’s new production refreshes some of the original...
When The Presnyakov Brothers’ ‘Terrorism’ played the Royal Court in 2003, it was hailed as a powerful and satirical portrait of Putin’s Russia as a country riddled with...
As Britain’s last female hope crashes out of Wimbledon as usual, Lloyd Evans’s new play attempts to provide some comfort with the fantasy scenario of a British female success. Evans has...
The great Brazilian playwright, Nelson Rodrigues, dipped his pen deep into the darkest veins of human nature. Here, in 1950s Rio, a husband and son are locked in perpetual mourning, zealously...
‘Le Mariage’ is rooted in documentary truth, but French playwright David Lescot has forged from the facts something implausible. The French have apparently taken to sheltering...
Meet Mark. On second thoughts, don’t bother. Abrasive and cantankerous, he’s the kind of public-school smart-arse whose very presence seems to elicit bad words from the most virtuous of...
Though British in tone and setting, Allan Swift’s drama of mid-life marital crises could be described as a cross between ‘Sex and the City’ and Woody Allen’s ‘Husbands...
Gregory Burke’s ‘Black Watch’ is set partly in the Fife pub where he interviewed a group who’d recently left the regiment, and partly in Camp Dogwood, the ‘Triangle of...
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