
A new play by Mike Leigh is always an event. So there was a palpable excitement in the air at the Cottesloe Theatre (the smallest and most intimate of the three National Theatre auditoria) w…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:26AM[SHARE]Arthur Miller is one of those geniuses whose plays are metaphor-rich even when their storytelling is slow. First staged in 1994, Broken Glass is surely his best late-period drama, and this r…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:02PM[SHARE]Welcome back Stephen Poliakoff. With his first new play for 12 years, the master penman has set aside his television excursions into history and memory " most recently Glorious 39 for the BB…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:34AM[SHARE]You could call it the BBC Four effect. It's fact-based fictions set in the past, more often than not about the absurdities of sexual mores or other changing customs. In the latest theatrical…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Can an ordinary wooden chair be an instrument of torture? Of course, every brute investigation makes use of such furniture, whether as a place to tie the victim down, or as a weapon to attac…
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