David Hare must know that dying on stage is nothing new
This steep body count isn't a modern invention - there are 66 deaths in just 11 of Shakespeare's plays, says Judith Flanders
This steep body count isn't a modern invention - there are 66 deaths in just 11 of Shakespeare's plays, says Judith Flanders
The famous count could not have a more theatrical pedigree if he tried. The great actor-manager Henry Irving " tall, preternaturally thin, with a fixed glare (due, apparently, to extreme myo…
Site-specific theatre is hard " where to put the audience, can they stand for nearly two hours, how do we enable them to see/hear, most importantly, what is the purpose of the site and how i…
As the much-loved Arthur Marshall so profoundly noted, Ibsen is "not a fun one". One could, with as much truth, say the same about Shakespeare's rarely staged Timon of Athens: its misanthrop…
Melodrama is not something we accept easily these days, tittering gently as the gore runs, moving restlessly in our seats as heroes or villains declaim to the gallery. So all the more odd, o…
"Do you feel morally superior to the Taliban? Well, do you?" And we're off, with another of director/choreographer Lloyd Newson's interrogations of a taboo subject. DV8 Physical Theatre is 2…
Dickens has been getting all the press in his 200th year, but there is another performer, even older, who celebrates: in 2012, Mr Punch, of Punch and Judy fame, is 350 years old, and Improba…
Highlights of the year are always interesting. Things you loved at the time do, sometimes surprisingly, fade very quickly. I really enjoyed the Gabriel Orozco retrospective at the Tate: I th…
Mme Tussaud was born in Bern in 1760. Well, in Strasbourg in 1761. Her father was a respectable tradesman. Or possibly the local hangman. Her mother was a clergyman's daughter. Or more likel…