“Restricted view” can mean anything from, “You’ll have to move your head slightly a few times during the show” to “Are you sure you really need to see the stage at ...Read More
There is nothing like an anniversary to concentrate the mind and here we have several Tudor-linked ones all coming together. Thirty years ago this month Dame Peggy Ashcroft obstructed the bulldozers i...Read More
These are politically interesting times – although it might be preferable to live in boring ones. A million of us shuffled – there was no room to march – along tightly packed streets...Read More
Metatheatre is everywhere these days, the fourth wall frequently breached. Actors, in or out of character, address the audience directly or simply remind them they are in a theatre, sharing imaginatio...Read More
Tom Stuart was lucid and persuasive on Start the Week (Radio 4) this morning, talking about Edward II as king and about Marlowe’s play. Catch that on BBC Sounds and the production, in which he p...Read More