In this age of austerity, it is very easy to take a sniffy and dismissive attitude to the arts. "Why save a theatre when you can save a hospital?" appears to ...
Emma Jane Denly begins a brand new monthly blog Devil's Advocate, a regular provocation about topical or controversial issues.
This month she plays devil's ...
Feast is a work of ambitious scope, taking on the familiar story of African enslavement and subsequent dispersion throughout the Atlantic world. It's harrow...
Staging an Ibsen play which the playwright disowned in later life as a reworking of a student acquaintance's "rough mess of a draft" might seem like asking for ...
There is an apt, echoing emptiness to the rooms of this Doll’s House. In the Young Vic’s new production of Ibsen’s domestic masterpiece, the superficial marit...