Review: Photograph 51, Noel Coward Theatre
“I suppose she just wasn’t exceptional enough”: at first a seemingly passing statement but in the final moments of Anna Ziegler’s play, Photograph 51, Nicole Ki...
Christopher Oram
Feature: Christopher Oram – “Passion is everywhere”
“She is absolutely adorable, lovely… She wants to help,” is Christopher Oram’s verdict on Nicole Kidman. Not that I’ve met many, but anyone who can make any per...
Review: Wolf Hall, Aldwych Theatre
Christopher Oram’s sparse set looms ominously above this exciting adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novel, with metal cages overhead and a ...
Feature: The Linbury Prize
Madeleine Girling's design for Nottingham Playhouse If you sneak up to the third floor of the National Theatre any time during the next week, you’ll find a ...
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I’ve never really been all that enthralled by Shakespeare’s comedies. Give me a meaty King Lear or Macbeth any day, dripping with blood and venom, than the li...
Review: Peter and Alice
John Logan’s new play Peter and Alice explores how stories and fantasy are used as escapism and can sterilise the pains of the past and present. Michael Grandag...