Stepping into the auditorium of the Donmar Warehouse is a bit like stepping into a hectic office. The space is so intimate that you feel like taking a step ba...
It certainly seems to be the season of the Irish playwright. And as The Cripple of Inishmaan crash lands at the Noel Coward Theatr, down the road at the Don...
Over the past few months we have found ourselves involved in a number of conversations about the current trend in theatre companies of producing adaptations o...
In the Epistle Dedicatory that precedes Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw contended that "in Shakespeare’s plays, the woman always takes the initiative". ...
At one point in The Promise, Lika – the female protagonist and dramatic centre of Aleksei Arbuzov’s 1965 three-hander – sighs that she is not as heroic as s...
Berenice conforms to the governing rules of the 'unities' laid out by Aristotle, which require the play to be ‘coherent, a unified whole, within twenty-four hou...