Monthly Archives: February 2012

King George III, a devoted husband and a conscientious monarch, was much loved. When his madness recurred in 1810 the theatrical profession, out of respect, stopped performing Shakespeare’s King Lear until after his death ten years later. Interestingly, one of … Continue reading →

Nicholas Wright writes in a very sentimental, folksy Jewish way about the beginnings of cinema and traces the early life of a Hollywood mogul in a shtetl in Eastern Europe when he made documentaries about the local community. The young … Continue reading →

Federico Garcia Lorca said the worst punishment was to be born a woman. The peasant class in Andalusia in 1936 still lived in a society where the women were ranked below land and oxen. Their job was to satisfy the … Continue reading →

The spooky, claustrophobic tunnels under Waterloo Station is a good venue for three early one-act plays by Eugene O’Neill, which share the same characters and are set aboard a merchant ship and on shore just before and during World War … Continue reading →

Simon Stephens’s conceit is to begin with an extract from Alfred Jarry’s notoriously scatological play performed by puppets (very boring) and then jump to the present day and put Ubu on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague … Continue reading →