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Sunday, June 19, 2016

theartsdesk at the Holland Festival by James Woodall

The Holland Festival is one of the greats. It has a British director, the articulate Ruth Mackenzie, formerly of the Chichester Festival and the cultural Olympiad, now into her second year. …

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Friday, January 24, 2014

King Lear, National Theatre by James Woodall

Sam Mendes thinks King Lear is a bigger play than it is. In a new staging he directs at the National Theatre, he wants it to be about a convulsion of nations, a reordering of borders, bombin…

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Suit, Young Vic Theatre by James Woodall

Peter Brook is probably at his happiest in Africa. Through his Paris theatre, the Bouffes du Nord, he has long had access to gifted Francophone black African actors. They've always been a si…

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Bloody Poetry, Jermyn Street Theatre by James Woodall

In opening words cited in the programme for Primavera's new production of Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry (1984) the playwright states he wanted to remind people of "England's radical, republ…

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

2011: Horrifying Hamlet, Enrapturing Elbow, and Intense Iranian drama by James Woodall

The Barbican as always led the way in London in international theatre programming. The year there ended on a high, with Thomas Ostermeier's Hamlet from the Schaubühne laying down new marker…

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Woodall's Xmas Test by James Woodall

The famous Siegessäule - the Victory Column, an erect stick of sandstone liquorice with a golden angel on its top - is even trickier. Conceived before Germany was born, it was inaugurated i…

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