As part of “Grimeborn,” what Time Out describes as “London’s hippest festival of new and underground opera,” the Arcola Theatre has produced Marsha: A...
It is a rare experience to leave the theatre feeling raw, real emotion; it is even rarer to have that sensation travel home with you, and stay with yo...
Fucking Men originally appeared at The King’s Head Theatre in 2009, running for 9 months - an unusually long time in the world of fringe theatre. Now,...
The Taming of the Shrew is no stranger to adaptation - the 1960s film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor has become a Hollywood classic, as ...
The decline of the North of England (post-Thatcher) is a theme that has been well examined in various films, plays and musicals over the past few deca...
Sometimes, in the ‘comment’ section of the more left-wing papers, an article will materialise about the damaging effects of war, or the difficulties t...
Tom Stoppard is one of Britain’s most prolific playwrights, and one of the few to have produced a new piece in every decade that the National Theatre ...
Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting was first published in 1993 and was immediately the subject of a tug-of-war between two very different sides of pub...
Rarely does a play leave you feeling uncertain, angry, guilty - as though an invisible set of hands has grabbed your shoulders and shaken you, attempt...
As I took my seat in the circular auditorium, a troupe of actors walked on stage. They informed us that we were about to watch a play. Not just any pl...
