This adaptation of Barbara Pym’s novel is a compelling study of ageing workers grappling with meaning
People
-
-
Set in a care home, this is a powerful, empathetic look at a crumbling system supporting the elderly
-
People
Siena Kelly, star of 1536: ‘I have to have sex a lot at work but it’s truly so unsexy’
by News Roomby News RoomThe parallels between 1536 and 2026 are unmistakable, although Kelly insists, “I forgot until we started doing Q and As, and everyone started bringing up Andrew Tate, the manosphere, Donald…
-
This classy revival of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play about a boy undergoing analysis after blinding six horses reveals its hybrid nature. Equus is an earnest exploration of belief, a homo-erotic…
-
Anyway, in scene two Buring’s character’s actual co-star in the first play appears and, uh-oh, it’s the guy she had a fiery fling with when they were young, poor actors…
-
People
Mother Courage and Her Children: Big, bold populist political theatre
by News Roomby News RoomMichelle Terry gives a bravura performance in this first staging of Brecht at Shakespeare’s Globe
-
His memoir about his remarkable life has already been adapted into a 2019 film written, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor: and now it’s become a sugar-sweet stage story with…
-
Anyway, in scene two Buring’s character’s actual co-star in the first play appears and, uh-oh, it’s the guy she had a fiery fling with when they were young, poor actors…
-
Since Arthur Conan Doyle was a spiritualist who believed in life after death, it’s possible that this garbled take on his famous detective is designed to drag the author, shrieking,…
-
People
Sir Ian McKellen returning to London stage in first major theatre role since fall
by News Roomby News RoomThe programme also features the London premiere of an adaptation of Jackie Collins’ 1968 novel The World Is Full Of Married Men, as well as a revival of Ntozake Shange’s…