Monthly Archives: January 2012

Are we part of a multiverse? Do we have we choice? Is there really free will or is everything predestined? A professional beekeeper and a quantum cosmologist meet. A relationship develops. Nick Payne explores what happens to them in tiny … Continue reading →

Kitchen sink dramas used to be working-class; they are now middle-class. Who knows best how to bring up a child? I think it was Jonathan Swift who said that parents were the very last people to be entrusted with the … Continue reading →

Terence Rattigan was Britain’s most successful playwright over a twenty year period: from 1937 (when French without Tears was premiered) until 1956 (when the angry young men arrived at the Royal Court) and he suddenly, at the age of 45, … Continue reading →

Shakespeare gets a raw deal from the Faction Theatre Company. There is no scenery; just a black box. The actors make scenery (stormy sea, box-tree, prison cell) with their bodies and hands. Malvolio is mad and wears a leg brace. … Continue reading →

Abi Morgan’s fragile, elusive and elegiac tear-jerker is directed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, the co-founders of Frantic Assembly who combine text and physical movement in their own special manner and who have worked with Morgan before, in 2001, … Continue reading →

Huis Clos is a legal term meaning in camera (behind closed doors). Jean-Paul Sartre’s psychological thriller premiered in Paris in 1944 when France was still under Nazi occupation. It has been translated under such titles as No Way Out, Dead … Continue reading →

Swiss playwright Max Frisch’s parable on law, order and freedom, which caused riots at its European premiere in 1951, gets its belated English premiere and fails to ignite. It doesn’t have, in this production by the Cerberus Theatre Company at … Continue reading →

St John Hankin’s comedy ran for six matinees at the Royal Court in 1906 in a memorable season which included plays by Shaw, Galsworthy, Euripides, Hauptman and Ibsen. It has not been seen in London since. Described by the playwright … Continue reading →