135 stories by "Julia Rank"
Not to be confused with Dora Carrington, the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington's life was as rich in creative energy and
Sheridan Morley once remarked that future productions of Jim Cartwright's 1992 play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice could never be
Tapping into the Victorian fascination with speed, time and travel, Jules Verne’s much-adapted novel Around the World in 80 Days tells the
Abigail Hood’s play Spiral takes place against a jagged promenade in an anonymous seaside town. The seedy associations of such a milieu
An astringent, pressure cooker production: Julia Burbach directs a clear and compelling opera at Dalston's Grimeborn Festival.
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The heroine of William Gibson's 1958 play Two for the Seesaw, struggling Bronx dancer Gittel Moskowitz, is archetypally Shirley MacLaine  (who played
It's the law of theatre that if there's a gun on stage it will go off before the play ends. In Robert
Samuel Pepys described Margaret Cavendish as "a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman." She was certainly an unusual woman for the 17th century, or
Amongst the forgotten stories of the First World War, those of the soldiers executed for desertion must be some of the most
Iris Theatre's production of Shakespeare's final play The Tempest takes the form of a gentle promenade in which the audience is seated
Whilst the cast of the current West End production of Tartuffe perform in a mixture of English and French, the bilingual Exchange
Arthur Miller's final play Finishing the Picture explores the manufacturing of female stars in Hollywood and their struggle to find their own
Taking its cue from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 gothic feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Ruby Lawrence’s intelligent re-imagining makes for an
Sewing tends to be thought of as a quiet, meditative activity performed by women in peaceful surroundings. The men’s prison in which
In Tim Cook's hour-long play Adam and Eve, the biblical progenitors take the form of a smug middle-class couple (played by Lee
In 1912, only the most desperate out-of-work theatre actors would have considered slumming it in moving picture shows. By 1928, cinema was
Based on true accounts of young women running away to join IS, Chicago-based playwright Selina Fillinger's debut play Faceless (which she wrote
Inspired by co-writer Lucy Joy Russell's personal experiences of IVF treatment, Stuffed follows 40-year-old Kim and her husband Jack's increasingly attempt to
Based on a novel by Simon Leys, Napoleon Disrobed imagines a scenario in which the diminutive tyrant escapes from exile in St
In honour of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Finborough Arms building, the west London pub theatre is presenting a
The opening scene of Austen The Musical makes a strong argument in favour of 'The Death of the Author' mode of literary
The painterly title Woman Before a Glass is suggestive of the male gaze. This one-woman play by Lanie Robertson " author of
Abi Morgan's three-hander Tiny Dynamite was last seen at the Lyric Studio in 2003. As well as continuing to write for theatre,
This time last year, Joanne Clifton raised the Strictly Come Dancing mirrorball trophy in front of a television audience of millions. Having
Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (first published in 1962) is a tale that has it all: intrepid orphans, a manor
