MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Sympathy for the devils
‘There's outrage aplenty in this production but we never quite get to the dark night of the soul,’ writes WILL STONE
HOMOSEXUAL REPRESSION: Kingsley Ben-Adir as Brick and Seb Carrington as Skipper
[Marc Brenner] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Almeida Theatre
TENNESSEE Williams’s favourite play is a masterpiece of richly drawn characters, open to seemingly endless interpretation.
Set on a cotton plantation in the Deep South, the original 1955 production had a white cast performing as the family of wealthy landowners with black actors playing servants.
Since then productions have featured an all-black cast and those set in the modern era complete with mobile phones and iPads.
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