31 stories by "Killian Fox"
The ​s​et designer ​and artist on ​the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and ​a writer's new angle on economics
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The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams's short stories
The playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood wa…
The actor on her hopes for Brixton's new theatre, an offbeat western and the sophistication of African art
Adjoa Andoh was born in Bristol in 1963 and grew up in Wickwar, Gloucestershire. A …
The Sri Lankan actor, who had wowed audiences in Sheffield in Life of Pi, was poised for West End fame when theatres shut up shop. He reflects on a career interrupted
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The actor on Tove Jansson's adult fiction, eclectic French radio and Gordon Parks's groundbreaking photography
Indira Varma grew up in Bath and graduated from Rada in 1995. Perhaps best know…
The actor on the resilience of Lemn Sissay, Amy Schumer's sidesplitting comedy and a fish stew to die for
Rafe Spall was born in Camberwell, south London, in March 1983. He joined the Nation…
His hit 2018 play riffed on black identity and saw the actor and writer hailed as one of British theatre's most exciting voices. Now he's starring in a bold new version of Death of a Salesma…
The English dramatist on juggling pregnancy with the opening of two new plays, the joys of YouTube, and how Only Fools and Horses helped her to find loveBorn in west London to actor parents,…
The standup comedian and activist talks about finding humour in unlikely places, such as the NHS… and BrexitMark Thomas is a comedian and activist from south London whose work has tackled …
The director on staging The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, why she's not on social media, and her next 'project'Born in 1982, Polly Findlay grew up in Wandsworth, south London, and worked as a c…
The actor on getting his voice in shape for The Threepenny Opera, growing up with showbiz parents, and his almost-career as a goalkeeper…You're playing Macheath in a new production of The …
The theatre director on Tacita Dean, Happy Valley, Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone, Penelope Fitzgerald and a remarkable documentaryKatie Mitchell was born in 1964 and raised in Berkshire. S…
The actor on Harold Pinter, a great Marlon Brando documentary, a Peter Ackroyd murder mystery and Shane Meadows's This Is England sagaDaniel Mays, 37, grew up in Epping, Essex, and trained a…
Shameless and Red Riding star Maxine Peake is known for taking on tough roles, but her latest is 'real acting athletics'
Artist Mark Storor brings messy tales of adolescent sexuality to CircusFest at London's RoundhouseA lot of cleaning up is required during Puffball, an intriguing, unsettling, ultimately joyf…
Tricycle, LondonMoira Buffini speculates gleefully on what took place between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher at those weekly teasThroughout her 11 years in office, Margaret Thatcher sat dow…
The Extras and Ugly Betty star on why she swapped the Hollywood life for Sir Trevor Nunn and the West EndIt's hard to imagine a less glamorous interview location than the little room where I…
The Borough Hall at Greenwich Dance, Greenwich, LondonThe first incarnation of a crow in this adaptation of Ted Hughes's important 1970 book of poetry is a gasping little wretch of a bird, b…
A year ago the Israeli-born director of a tiny theatre in a West Bank refugee camp was gunned down. Now young Palestinians are fighting to save the place where they can voice their anger, fr…
St Leonard's Church, LondonDavid Edgar's award-winning 1994 play tries to fit a lot under one roof. It's not merely an art-historical detective story: Pentecost is also a hostage thriller an…
Rose theatre, KingstonSo much is established so quickly in Ibsen's 1888 play about free will, female dependence and the ghosts of the past that it takes a particularly strong cast to shoulde…
Barbican, LondonOne murder, according to the puppet-master Mr Harvey in this gleefully nasty piece of work from Improbable, is committed every 1.56 seconds. To help us understand this ghastl…
The actor and presenter, aged 37, on celebrity, sex and psoriasisTo me there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure. For some reason I have to feel guilty about liking Def Leppard or Bon Jovi.…
Vaudeville, LondonIt's 1938, and in Germany the Nazis are stepping up the persecution of the Jews. Halfway around the world, in Brooklyn, a Jewish woman, deeply affected by images from Krist…
Lyric, LondonA deal struck with the devil rarely has happy consequences, and in this richly entertaining new show from Emma Rice's Kneehigh company the price is a pair of pretty young hands,…
