Ellen McDougall: “There’s no agenda, just teenage girls on the pitch”
Phoebe Graham talks to Ellen McDougall, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre about her work on The Wolves, a play rightfully candid in its presentation of fema...
Theatre Royal Stratford East
Review: Reasons To Be Cheerful, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Ian Dury was born in Harrow in 1942. He contracted polio during the 1949 epidemic, which left him disabled in later life. In 1971, Ian Dury and the Blockheads w...
Review: Room, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Room tells the story of Ma and her little boy Jack as they go about their daily lives within the confines of a small, square room. They play, exercise, read, an...
Emma Donoghue on Room: “My son told everyone I wrapped him up in the rug!”
There’s something fantastically refreshing about a hugely successful writer getting their kids to do (some of) the editing of their latest book, but then, this ...
Review: The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Rosa Maggiora’s block set, while crisp and clean, seems altogether out of place for this production – too futuristic and alternative compared with the more trad...
Review: The Hotel Cerise, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Inspired by Chekov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’, Bonnie Greer takes us to Michigan and ‘The Hotel Cerise’, the almost abandoned getaway for the African-American elite...