Jez Butterworth’s bold, brilliant Jerusalem wouldn’t be written today
Then there is Johnny himself. He is feckless, deceitful, deeply dodgy, but Christ, I rooted for him throughout: yearning for him to have a proper relationship with…
Jez Butterworth’s bold, brilliant Jerusalem wouldn’t be written today
Then there is Johnny himself. He is feckless, deceitful, deeply dodgy, but Christ, I rooted for him throughout: yearning for him to have a proper relationship with…
Purple Snowflakes and Titty W—s, review: a short, sharp shock of essential theatre
The ribald, verging on scatological humour in Irish playwright and actress Sarah Hanly’s semi-autobiographical and darkly comic debut play, Purple Snowflakes and Titty W—s, is so graphic…
Purple Snowflakes and Titty W—s, review: a short, sharp shock of essential theatre
The ribald, verging on scatological humour in Irish playwright and actress Sarah Hanly’s semi-autobiographical and darkly comic debut play, Purple Snowflakes and Titty W—s, is so graphic…
The Glow, review: confusing time-travelling drama tinkers with history
After his 2014 cult breakthrough, Pomona, spiriting up a sinister netherworld nestling in the heart of Manchester, and then X, outlandishly set on a research base on…
A Fight Against, review: a subtle study of the nature of violence
Under the late Elyse Dodgson, the Royal Court’s upstairs space was for years a hothouse of international talent, showcasing plays from all corners of the world, many…
Max Stafford-Clark’s MeToo mea culpa: how a giant of British theatre was brought crashing to earth
Not helping matters is the fact that his stroke seems, for some, to be a convenient smoke-screen. In 2017, the actress Tracy-Ann Oberman wrote in The Guardian…