Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner’s intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMHer singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP Michael Billington: Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMHis 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMBrixton House, LondonDirector Monique Touko keeps the tone lively with this tough story of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe in which the actors switch race, age and gender with ease In a place called Par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMO’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMHampstead theatre, LondonTwo women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O’Neill’s allegorical play set in an evangelical church Two sisters circle each other in the antecham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMHampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas’s play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny From Gentleman Jac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble What do you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMThe innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer Simon Stone doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMNovelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil • Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91 The novelist Fay Weldon, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis co-production between the Globe and Tamasha gives voice to five fluent, witty and graceful women, allowing them to reshape the ancient tales as their own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThe comedian-writer’s One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style ‘messy woman’ trope. As it transfers to London’s West End, she says she feels ‘at odds’ with its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMThe actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles Emma Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMAs Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm Time feels out …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMIn his new play, the screenwriter and author investigates ideas of individualism, sexual freedom and mortality through a woman who recreates herself as a cyborg David Farr is perplexed by tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMLyttelton theatre, LondonA group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton ‘You’re a genius wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMIn the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we’ve already reviewed – including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry This searing, sweaty disco is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMOlivier theatre, LondonAnupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today When it comes to taboo-busting, Anupama Cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMHow did the novelist adapt her bestseller The Taxidermist’s Daughter for the stage? By stripping out the gore, ratcheting up the revenge – and asking her actor son for tips ‘I’ve ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMAlmeida theatre, LondonA cycle of nine community pieces that use black comedy and cautionary tales to celebrate the people who keep things going For its latest show, the Almeida, in Islingto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMHampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas peels back the emotional layers in a group-therapy drama that fizzes towards a devastating finale A family of four and a therapist tiptoe around one anot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSieges, riots, serial killings, sex work … Alecky Blythe has put them all on stage. She reveals all about her latest project – an epic look at the comic ups and touching downs of teenage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMDuke of York’s theatre, LondonShapeshifting creatures take centre stage in Katy Rudd’s production that terrifyingly evokes childhood nightmares and family trauma Neil Gaiman’s short, l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThe former League of Gentlemen star on his love of low-budget British spinechillers, his loathing of Brexit and a slew of projects opening this winter Mark Gatiss scans the breakfast menu at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMIt started with lockdown and a broken angel, but Coventry’s year as city of culture is highlighting its reputation for resilience Shortly before midnight on 23 January 2020, security came…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMGielgud theatre, LondonThe climactic play based on Hilary Mantel’s magisterial trilogy has wit and grace but no great dramatic release It’s a truism all too well known to Thomas Cromwell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMFour years ago, she was involved in a horrific accident. Little did she know it would leave her uniquely prepared to play a noblewoman hit by a falling elephant in the RSC’s new Christmas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMBush, LondonHumiliation meets humour as Mika Onyx Johnson tells of his hard-won transformation through rap, storytelling and dance From the moment Mika Onyx Johnson bounces on to the stage, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMKitchen discos and archive performances kept us going – but being stuck at home made me pine for a full house In the early months of the pandemic, as the survival instinct of the live arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMNottingham PlayhouseJenna Russell captures the tragedy in this rags-to-rags story but the power of the songs can’t hide the play’s weaknesses From the moment Jane Lapotaire stepped out a…
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