When playwright Frederick Knott first conceived and wrote Dial M for Murder in 1948, he identified the text’s core strength as its seriousness: “this is a seri...
John Boyne’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas became a worldwide bestseller on its publication in 2006; told from the point of view of nine-year-old Bruno, ...
In Nazi occupied Guernsey, Jeanne Becquet is faced with the hard task of protecting her exuberant and dysfunctional family with her Jewish daughter in-law Lily ...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The infamous Austen quotation rings throu...
Noël Coward tends to take a bit of a bashing nowadays. The average Coward production is about as unfashionable as its octogenarian audience is unaware of where ...
King Lear is a timeless Shakespearian tragedy. Presented by Royal & Derngate Northampton at the Richmond Theatre, we watch the King split his kingdom to his...