The truth about Rome may be too brutal for the young to handle

Some 50 years after its original publication, it has suddenly occurred to writers of the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC), which depicts happy slaves singing and dancing their…

Drunken arguments, teenage conquests: Alexander before he was Great

Some of the stories about the early life of Alexander the Great are wonderful. At a young age, he questioned ambassadors from Persia not about childish things,…

Punchdrunk interview: ‘Audiences are human – they sometimes misbehave’

While the company has been busy establishing itself as a global brand, most notably with their acclaimed riff on Macbeth, Sleep No More, which opened in New…