There are few titles more vague than Freedom. In Rick Limentani’s play (quite possibly the first ever written about opium farmers in Tajikistan), it’s the n...
The Orange Tree Theatre is very good at Victorian and Edwardian plays with an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ theme, and Auriol Smith’s most agreeable revival of St J...
No, I didn’t know that Beowulf was a panto story either. It may well be the first time that this Anglo-Saxon epic poem of uncertain authorship with a mythical D...
There surely aren’t many celebrity librettists, but comedian, impressionist and recent Strictly Come Dancing contestant Rory Bremner seems to be something o...
The Belle’s Stratagem is a play that even the most notoriously cross-referential critic would have trouble comparing to another version, as ‘lady playwright...
William Kerley’s staging of Mozart’s 1786 opera Le nozze di Figaro is the fifth time that British Youth Opera have produced this much-loved piece since thei...