A Dangerous Method (15)
David Cronenberg's Freud/Jung/Spielrein drama is long on period detail and short on historical context
Peter de Francia (January 25 1921-January 19 2012)
Peter de Francia's work was informed by the socialist principles which set him resolutely on the side of the marginalised and oppressed
Red Army Faction Blues
Red Army Faction Blues persuasively blends fact and fiction in its account of Germany's turbulent times from the '60s to the '80s, writes Paul Simon
On the stage
She Stoops To Conquer
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Director Jamie Lloyd revamps Oliver Goldsmith's 18th-century classic in a production which heightens the sharp wit, brazen punning and farcical asides of the original.
The House Of Bernarda Alba
Monday 06 February 2012
Federico Garcia Lorca's last play was written shortly before his execution by Franco's forces in 1936.
Resolution!
Sunday 05 February 2012
2012 is the 23rd year of the remarkable and richly rewarding Resolution! season.
The Taming Of The Shrew
Monday 30 January 2012
Presumably Shakespeare would not have regarded the treatment of women as any more acceptable than his fellow Elizabethans.
New Variety's New Act Of The Year Final
Monday 30 January 2012
This year's New Act of the Year final was held in the bizarre Olympic leisure farm which has taken over east London's Stratford to accommodate the four weeks of industrial-level grotesquery which is drawing ever nearer.
Travelling Light
Friday 27 January 2012
Nicholas Wright's gently amusing new play is an imaginative representation of rural life in an eastern European Jewish shtetl at the end of the 19th century.
Two
Friday 27 January 2012
As the old saying goes there's nowt so queer as folk and, in Jim Cartwright's quirky play set in a northern pub, a whole host of oddballs drop in for a drink.
Big Society!
Wednesday 25 January 2012
In Edwardian times Britain was run by ex-public schoolboys while the jobless and poor suffered at the hands of political warmongers and corruption.
Better Living Through Comedy
Wednesday 18 January 2012
The Fat Kitten impro group has gone through uncountable line-ups, a sweet dadaism which reflects the ephemeral nature of their partiular comic beast and has served their structured lack of structure laudably in the past.