The Guardian's theatre critic's imaginative exploration of life in the shadows Arifa Akbar, chief theatre critic of this newspaper, is used to working at night: the journey from curtain call to home computer screen, writing into the early hours to make sure a review can appear as soon as possible, is familiar and comfortable " indeed, often actively comforting " to her. But all this exists very close to far more tro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM on July 8, 2025