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They are also ridiculous. Early on, the flower of Troy’s fighting youth parade before Cressida in bulbously muscled, spangly bodysuits, as Pandarus nudges her towards Troilus. Jonathan Livingstone’s Agamemnon is…

His costume-changes, including a Blockbuster Video sweatshirt and a ruff and tailcoat, are affectations, poses. For the theatre-trivia nerds, his t-shirt slogan “Tobacco and Boys” is a quote from a…

Stratford East has just announced its forthcoming season under new Artistic Director Lisa Spirling

Fluting, acerbic, but also surprisingly warm, Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell is the trump card of Max Webster’s hyper-camp reading of Oscar Wilde’s peerless comedy. Handsomely remounted in the West End…

Joe Orton’s twisted comedy about sex and class should be ripe for a modern revival but here it is more Carry On than carnal

If it were a triumph, life would be easier; the National in safe hands, theatre saved. If it were a dud everyone could cluck and crow. Instead it’s both, and…

Nima Taleghani is becoming the first debutant playwright to have a play on at the National Theatre’s Olivier stage… and he’s not freaking out at all

The show opens at Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on September 10 before heading to Cardiff, Brighton, London, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Newcastle and Glasgow. The London stop will see Piff return to…

The saving grace, then, is Pickett’s instinctive knack for finding humour in even the most drab conversations. Her script is littered with golden nuggets of comedy; one of the biggest…

When laconic barman Brendan (Owen McDonnell) arrives, Jack warns him that local boy-made-good Finbar, now a Carrick hotelier with a property empire, has rented a long-empty nearby house to an…