Measure for Measure
Shakespeare was clever, wasn’t he? Bowling around Elizabethan London, bard-ing away, and managing to write…
Browsing: The Culturist
Medea at The Almeida
As part of the Almeida Greeks season, intrepid author Rachel Cusk has re-imagined the most…
Goya: The Portraits
Witches covens, assassinations, a cannibalistic Saturn and glowering colossus – the paintings by Francisco de…
The Father
The Father by French playwright Florian Zeller won the 2014 Molière award for France’s best…
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
I’m going to begin by admitting that Showstopper! is the most hilarious musical I’ve seen…
Farinelli and the King
Mark Rylance, hailed as one of the greatest stage actors of a generation, is an…
Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In 2012, the actor and biographer Ian Kelly published a brilliant account of the life…
Future Conditional
It was halfway through Future Conditional that I knew playwright Tamsin Oglesby must have gone…
Jane Eyre
This experimental new play at the Lyttleton Theatre, an adaptation of arguably the greatest Victorian…
Our Country’s Good
It’s always a difficult decision for an artistic director as to how long he or…