Vivienne Westwood: “I don’t think about posterity at all”
The fashion designer on environmental activism, her friendship with Julian Assange and why punk was just a ”marketing opportunity”.
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The National Theatre’s The Prisoner is a moving example of Peter Brook’s “late style”
The playwright’s latest work nods most fondly to two classical texts he is connected with: Oedipus and Hamlet.
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The best of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018
Moral debate and questions of the right to offend dominate this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
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Allelujah! Is Alan Bennett’s best work in years
This NHS drama is his brightest, tightest and most satisfying play since 1991’s The Madness of George III.
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The Lehman Trilogy at the National: spectacular, elegant perfection
Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley play a whole host of men, women, babies and a range…
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Laura Linney is captivating in My Name is Lucy Barton
Rona Munro and Richard Eyre have skilfully translated a novelistic monologue into a solo stage show.
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The two faces of Philip Roth
Throughout several encounters with the late great novelist, I saw him switch between scabrous provocateur and professorial literary grandee.
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The Old Vic’s Mood Music hums with disquiet about the gender dynamics of the music industry
Joe Penhall’s new play features a dispute over songwriting credits.
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Sound and fury: why Macbeth is having a resurgence in the age of Trump and Brexit
Five performances of Macbeth are on offer in Britain this spring: along with a ballet, a movie, and a…
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