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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
‘We want to challenge the people who have influence’
Theatre director JOLLEY GOSNOLD tells Lynne Walsh why he's bringing an Ibsen classic bang up to date
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
ADAPTING a complex and politically charged classic by literary colossus Henrik Ibsen may seem daunting enough.
More than that, the new production of his play An Enemy of the People, about to open at The Playground Theatre in west London, promises “a new, diverse, modern adaptation,” a description which might strike dread into many a reviewer’s heart.
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