Medea is perhaps the most potent myth for the #MeToo generations. First-performed in 431 BC, Euripidesâ drama has had countless interpreters.
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Of all the Miller revivals currently doing the capitalâs round, âThe American Clockâ is not the softest option for any director, actor or audience to take on. Part social documentary, part human drama, part political commentary, it can feel at times like it has bitten off more vision and message than it can theatrically deliver.
It is rare to see productions of Brecht in London today. It is even rarer to see them performed in Russian.This jewel from Moscow came only briefly to London but it showed audiences that there is an antidote to endless naturalism.
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
The Cherry Orchard lays bare, in elegiac tones, the passing of the old, entrenched aristocratic order and the emergence of the new at the expense of the old.
One of the strengths of this piece of thoughtful social melodrama is that, by the end, any credibility stretched by the child-mob scenario is less important than the way we are moved to analyse our own response to one manifestation of historic institutionalised British child abuse.
Just as Keatsâ elliptic âBeauty is truth, truth beautyâ is comprehensible in context, the meaning of Che Walkerâs âTime is Love/Tiempo es Amorâ is made apparent by this superbly acted and eloquent 90 minutes of drama.
This piece of theatre is inspired by La Maladie de la Mort, Marguerite Durasâ 1982 novella. The original text explored a homosexualâs purchase of a woman in a vain search for love.
Henrik Ibsenâs Peer Gynt defied theatreâs limitations with a vast cast, sprawling action and special effects.
Under Stewart Laingâs inspired direction, four permanently-glowing screens help to convey the bigoted characters of a charmless northern French village, where violence, shame, pride, racism and homophobia form the fabric of society.
In our blasĂŠ age, we may take for granted that a remote Yorkshire parsonage managed to produce three sisters who defied rigid Victorian convention to give voice to raw passions and sexual frustration no respectable woman was meant to feel.
by Barbara Lewis • plays, theatre, year 2019 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, plays, theatre •
Almost exactly 100 years ago on April 13, in Amritsar, the British Indian Army fired into a crowd of unarmed Punjabis, killing and harming hundreds. Director Phil Wilmott marks this appalling example of manâs inhumanity to man by transporting Othello from Venice and Cyprus to the India of the British Raj.