In 1968 John Gielgud, wearing a black rollneck sweater, starred in a notorious production of Seneca’s Oedipus, in a new version by Ted Hughes, directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, s...Read More
I have been to the theatre! Twice! Well, I didn’t travel anywhere the second time, but I was watching a live-streamed performance attended by several hundred people present in the building. My f...Read More
Helen McCrory was such a vivid person that, when the announcement came last Friday, it was hard to take in the news that she had died. Only 52, the mother of two young children, she seemed to have man...Read More
“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
It may be summer (well, some of the time) but it’s rarely too warm to enjoy going to the theatre. In fact, these days, the air conditioning is often so efficient that it’s advisable to tak...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