Alan Ayckbourn, considered a classic notable of English playwriting, has seen a number of revivals throughout the last decade from the Fringe to the National Th...
That scary-faced old lady in the picture? That’s me. No, my face has not been ravaged by harsh stage makeup, tears from bad reviews and constant rejection,...
Quite how I’d arrived in Dartmoor in the dead of night, the wind howling in my ears and the incessant pounding of the rain threatening to engulf me, I did not k...
In the cold, damp echoes of the Vaults at the Southwark Playhouse, Greek drama unfolds. King Pentheus (Damien Hasson) refuses to recognise the divinity of t...
Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis deals with suicidal despair, and severe clinical depression and its treatment. It is a formidable text, having no character list...
Greek funny man Euripides’s The Bacchae was first performed in 405BC. The Bacchae of the title are a group of women driven mad by Dionysus, god of (amongst othe...