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Henry IV, part 1 20 Jun 2010 | 09:37 pm
Looks like it might be a good summer for plays with Henry in the title at Shakespeare’s Globe. Hard on the heels of a powerful Henry VIII comes the first instalment of Dominic Dromgoole’s Henry IV, a ...
Henry IV, part 1 20 Jun 2010 | 05:37 pm
Even without its climactic sequel this is a roguishly appealing, stand-alone historical romp.
Electric Hotel 19 Jun 2010 | 04:29 am
The Electric Hotel stands before us in semi-darkness, a plant on its rooftop and a ‘No Vacancies’ sign lit up out front. Behind it stands Gas Holder No 8, and an expanse of industrial wasteland. Light...
Electric Hotel 19 Jun 2010 | 12:29 am
Electric Hotel is a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.
Interview with Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart 17 Jun 2010 | 11:45 pm
In this interview Diana Damian talks to Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart, about his company and its work for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities. You have extensive expe...
Interview with Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart 17 Jun 2010 | 07:45 pm
Diana Damian talks to Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart, about his company and its work for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Henry VIII 20 May 2010 | 06:50 pm
It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time. So a new production of the little-performed Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe ...
Henry VIII 20 May 2010 | 02:50 pm
It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time.
Peter Pan 19 May 2010 | 12:39 pm
Regular readers may have noticed my tendency to write about Peter Pan at any available opportunity (including here and here). So I hope you won’t take it as deliberate waywardness that the National Th...
Peter Pan 19 May 2010 | 08:39 am
Grafting a social conscience onto Barrie’s blithely heartless hero isn’t as easy as re-attaching lost shadows.