Monthly Archives: January 2014

For most British theatregoers Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) means one play and one play only, A Month in the Country (1872). Lucy Bailey’s production of Fortune’s Fool (1848), written in a style which is, inevitably, much nearer to Gogol and Ostrovsky … Continue reading →

King Richard (1377-99) believes he is king by divine right but he is too narcissistic, too shallow, too weak and too vacillating to be effective as a medieval king. David Tennant, one of the finest actors of his generation, is … Continue reading →

THE EL. TRAIN is an umbrella title for three one-act plays, fraught little studies of despair and disillusionment, set in a seedy New York tenement block, written by the very young Eugene O’Neil when he was recovering from consumption. Before … Continue reading →