208 stories by "David Jays"
Young Vic theatre, London Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger as an archive researcher finds herself trapped in modern-day misogyny…
Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks b…
Soho theatre, LondonDirected with swagger and finesse by Matthew Xia, Dave Harris’s play explores sex, pleasure, parenthood and what makes a manThere are two kinds of people in the world �…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonA 1950s Port of Spain setting simmers with political change and family tension in Martina Laird’s debut playThe air hangs heavy in Alma, a drinking club…
Old Vic theatre, LondonDirector Clint Dyer brings a fresh political focus to Ken Kesey's story of disempowerment but the relentless misogyny of the text feels retrograde
When Randle P McMurp…
Watermill theatre, NewburyScreenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert's dutiful devotion
When screenwrit…
Finborough theatre, LondonIrritable passions ferment beneath the frowsty knits and beads in atmospheric 1935 psychological thriller
Lonely lives, falling between the gaps, are at the heart o…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonVan Gogh is a restless soul who finds kinship " and possibly more " with his London landlady in this tender and full-hearted drama
The young Vincent van Gogh spen…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonTracy-Ann Oberman stars in this absorbing and timely revival of Ryan Craig's 2011 comic tragedy, set over one fraught evening
A death in the family is always …
Park theatre, London Patrick Marber updates Strindberg's story to a country house in 1945, where upstairs-downstairs disaffection drives the drama
Strindberg claimed that he wrote Miss Jul…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonJerome Kilty's fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell
When Jerome Kilty was …
Park theatre, LondonBill Rosenfield reimagines the playwright's early work about the souring relationship between newlywed artists
Hell is other people " especially if you're married to them…
King's Head theatre, LondonLevi Kreis embarks on a journey of rediscovery in song, from self-hating adolescence to self-destructive adulthood
The title of this semi-autobiographical musical …
The writer's former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death
' 'We were swimming in the mind pool of T…
Old Fire Station, OxfordThings get tense when a newcomer seems to know too much in Karim Khan's absorbing play
Karim Khan's absorbing Christmas play offers warmth, doubt, uncanny strangers a…
The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that explored arcadias, utopias and affecting notions of home
Tom Stoppard's breakthrough play opened on a bare stage, with two characters in…
Curve theatre, LeicesterA full-throttle Maria, a memorably forlorn Captain von Trapp and the carousel of classic hits make Nikolai Foster's production something to savour
You know what to ex…
Arcola theatre, London Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama
This is no glam…
Watermill theatre, Newbury Rob Madge's colourful reworking of the 1892 comedy makes clever adjustments while retaining the original's spirit
The frump turns fabulous in this new version of a…
Noël Coward theatre, LondonMax Webster's frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast
Oscar Wilde's comedy was, he said, "writte…
Young Vic, LondonTamzin Outhwaite and Jordan Stephens shine in Nadia Fall's sharp revival of Orton's 60s play " where lust and manipulation jostle under the chintz
Does it count as chosen fa…
Almeida theatre, LondonWe follow three brothers through a Victorian childhood to the 21st-century in this time-bending tale exploring the essence of what it is to be male
What did the Romans…
Nottingham PlayhouseDeft and witty drama follows the religious conservative campaigner as she rails against blasphemy, porn and homosexuality
A culture warrior before her time, Mary Whitehou…
Cow | Deer gets 'between the ears' of animals, creating mouse noises with polystyrene balls and comparing wild creatures with industrialised ones. So if there's no dialogue, what did its wri…
Royal Court theatre, LondonUkrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky's book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts " signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audi…
