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It's been a lacklustre Swan season so while its final production, Juliet Gilkes Romero's The Whip , isn't without flaws I stil...

In a theatrical landscape experimenting excitedly with gender-flipped, gender-blind and gender-neutral casting, it's good for a compan...

No good deed goes unpunished for Dido, Queen of Carthage in the latest Christopher Marlowe play to get an RSC revival in the Swan. After ...

For the most famous playwright in history, Shakespeare is surprisingly subject to the whims of fashion, or at least individual plays of hi...

It's ironic that Gregory Doran, to me the epitome of reverential, by-the-numbers Shakespeare, should have delivered my favourite-ever ...

After having a summer hit last year with Volpone , the RSC bring Ben Jonson back to the Swan with his most famous farce, The Alchemist . I...

The RSC are of course marking the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death on the 23rd of April 1616*, but they're also ackno...

Two years ago in the Swan, the RSC had a hit with a revival of A Life of Galileo , which gloried in the enduring enthusiasm of the scienti...

Artist Louise (Kate Miles) is planning a comeback exhibition, its centrepiece a sculpture of four British soldiers, dead from horrific inj...

I first came across stories of Baba Yaga, the bogeyman of Russian and Eastern European fairytales, during a university project on storytel...