Monthly Archives: May 2011

When the RSC staged Edward Albee’s play in 1969 the critics and the public thought it elusive and difficult; but in 1996, when it was revived in New York, it was found to be totally accessible and hailed as one … Continue reading →

A man drowns himself. The Norwegian playwright, Jon Fosse, is immensely popular on the continent; but he is barely known in the UK. There will be those who will find his 70-minute existential play, a bleak, poetic, Beckett-like piece, hard … Continue reading →

Street dancing has come a long way since the ghettos in New York in the 1970s and is now one of the most popular dance forms in Britain; in fact, it is much more likely to be found in theatres … Continue reading →

All’s not well if you want subtlety; but then the Globe doesn’t do subtlety and John Dove’s superficial production knows its audience. Helena, a physician’s daughter, heals the king of his sickness and asks, as her reward, to be married … Continue reading →

Artistic director Lucy Bailey celebrates the centenary of Tennessee Williams’ birth with a rare revival of a play, which was called The Seven Descents of Myrtle when it opened on Broadway in 1968. The critics damned it and it closed … Continue reading →

London Road is in Ipswich and the residents had often complained to the police about the prostitutes soliciting in their street but nothing was done about it until five prostitutes were murdered in 2006. Suddenly the police and the media … Continue reading →

Electra never forgave her mother for killing her father Agamemnon who had sacrificed her sister Iphigenia to Artemis in return for a wind so that the Greek army could set sail for Troy. Grief-stricken and hungry for revenge she waits … Continue reading →

Everybody has heard of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit round the earth fifty years ago. But who has heard of Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov, the chief designer of the soviet space programme and responsible for the USSR’s successes? Rona … Continue reading →