Murder in the forest Complicité, the adventurous theatre company led today by Simon McBurney, one of its founders, is now 40. Over the last four decades, McBurney and his collaborators hav…
An evocation of magic that falls short of enchantment The Tempest, a rich and profound late work, is probably Shakespeare's most complex and layered play: the combination of power politics,…
Mark Rylance brilliant as rebel doctor in a show let down by an overdose of ingenuity Dr Semmelweis, another vehicle Mark Rylance, one of Britain's most versatile and talented actors, fills …
Tristan Sturrock's Cyrano: vibrant energy matched by depth Tom Morris's production of Cyrano starts with a procession of nuns, some of them bearded, chanting verses from the medieval mystic …
A tongue-in-cheek take on the Jane Austen classic misfires It is a truth perhaps not quite but almost universally accepted that Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", beloved of GSCE English …
The pity of war - a strikngly contemporary take on a humanity's addiction to conflictHenry V is a play shot through with martial energy and the terrible chaos of war. The almost overpow…
Greek tragedy stripped of its ambiguity and depthGreek tragedy provides an unending source of material for the stage: in no other theatrical form have the labyrinths of human nature been so …
Othello as Iago's tale: sex, violence and mysogynyIntimacy is a mixed blessing: Richard Twyman's close-up exploration of sex and violence in his production of "Othello" for Bristol's Sh…