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If Hamlet 's most famous question is asked by the title character, Troilus and Cressida 's is asked by the audience, shortly after ...

My relationship with David Edgar's plays has been mixed: I think my still-strong memories of enjoying Pentecost in the '90s make m...

I still have strong memories of the Lyric Hammersmith successfully translating science fiction to the stage with the striking Solaris a fe...

The opening scene of Cuckoo is funny, but feels like it comes from an already-dated play: Women from three generations sit around a dining...

With the changing understanding of gender, and the arrival of bankable non-binary stars like Emma Corrin in recent years, it's not surp...

The last time Christopher Marlowe's version of the Doctor Faustus story was seen in London, the Swanamaker cast a female lead to tak...

I've seen Venice Preserved once before, but as that particular production was an incoherent car crash that was 50% sales presentatio...

Whenever I review a Shakespeare play, I make a note in the subject line of the company or venue, as there's so many productions of his...

Ever since Cock , Mike Bartlett has been writing plays based around a very specific set design, often putting his central characters under...

As we reach Nicholas Hytner's final months running the National, a number of the most successful creatives from the last few years of ...

Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice is apparently both a GCSE text and an old stalwart of regional rep. As a result it's the s...

Greg and Holly moved to Dubai as a result of a vague romantic attraction of Holly's to the desert. In fact when we first meet them, Ho...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The RSC isn't inviting the Press to this until Tuesday. To round off the RSC's "A World Elsewhere"...