When We Dead Awaken proves it – Ibsen was astonishingly modern
Henrik Ibsen, widely cited as the father of modern theatre, is the most performed playwright in the world after Shakespeare. Most theatre-makers, drawn to his masterful excavation…
Elvis Costello: ‘They’ll mark my death with two songs I didn’t write’
Costello’s Irish paternal grandfather “was an orphan who ended up in the British Army in the second battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, wounded in France in…