10 stories by "Ismene.brown"
Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris's first stab at Shakespeare direction at the Nati…
Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris's first stab at Shakespeare direction, Macbeth at…
A fine staging of O'Neill's family tragedy crowned by an indelible performanceEugene O'Neill's 1945 play Long Day's Journey Into Night is famously a portrayal of the hellish damage…
★★★★ LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, WYNDHAM'S THEATRE A fine staging of O'Neill's family tragedy crowned by an indelible performance from Lesley ManvilleA fine stagin…
Chekhov's classic bird updates entertainingly, even if lopsidedly, as a play for todayThe awful mother, the celebrity-obsessed teenager, the mediocre old writer who wants some young sex…
David Storey skilfully probes troubled relations inside a Yorkshire bungalowThe late David Storey spoke movingly, elsewhere on The Arts Desk, of his sense of overwhelming powerlessness at th…
Celebrated Moscow company delivers something far from contemporarySovremennik is Russian for "contemporary", and ever since its founding in the Soviet Union's 1950s Thaw, Moscow's Sovreme…
Adjust your brain, and give in to Tom Stoppard's howlingly funny playTom Stoppard's humungously funny play Travesties was born out of a piece of James Joyce doggerel about how a British…
Sharp Seventies political farce comes suddenly bang up to dateThis House arrives in the West End with magic timing - a comedy about the farcical horrors of being a government with a wafer-th…
Miller's morality play fights to be relevant in the Trump eraWhat would a Trump follower make of a successful businessman who grew his company on the proceeds of a negligent decision, a…