Monthly Archives: July 2015

Franz Kafka’s satire on the totalitarian state, bureaucracy and the inaccessibility of the Law, has been filmed and staged many times, and most notably by Orson Welles and Steven Berkoff. It describes the nightmare of being arrested for no reason … Continue reading →

The actual title of the American play is liable to cause so much offence that the posters in the London underground and the announcements in the theatre have been abbreviated to The Mother with the Hat. Even the National Theatre … Continue reading →

Written and directed by lowercase debbie tucker green, Hang is a short, sharp 70-minute satire on capital punishment and procedural protocol. A terrible unnamed crime has been committed. The victim, a severely traumatized middle-aged black woman, is allowed to decide … Continue reading →

Rebecca Gilman’s play is not exactly top drawer American drama but it does raise social and moral issues about child care, which concern us all. Luna Gale is the name of a baby. Her parents are teenage drug addicts and … Continue reading →