Review: Ah, Wilderness!, Young Vic
Pegged as Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! is a neat balance of slapstick gags, drunken mayhem, impromptu verse recitals, and most pertinently, a g...
Eugene O’Neill
Blog: Young directors – fear and magic in the rehearsal room
I’ve run rehearsals in the past for very small projects; I’ve been an assistant director sitting in on rehearsals and taking notes, giving feedback and providin...
Feature: Weapons of Mass Creation – the Paul Robeson Art is a Weapon Festival
Denied permission to leave the US, actor and singer Paul Robeson famously telephoned in a performance to a Canadian trade union convention in 1952, singing ...
Review: Desire Under the Elms
It may be nearly a hundred years since Desire Under the Elms was written, but the stage still brims with the barely-repressed desire promised by the title of ...
Desire under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith
As Morgan Watkins prepares for his leading role in Desire Under the Elms, the actor speaks to Sarah Williams about adultery, infanticide and bloody good drama.