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The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre: here, nothing is polite

Yaël Farber’s production, starring James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, summons up an energy that is raw and bloody.

By Rosemary Waugh

The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre: here, nothing is polite

The Royal Swedish Opera’s La Passion de Simone: a philosopher’s life

By Rosemary Waugh

Nora: A Doll’s House explores Ibsen’s classic in three different contexts

By Rosemary Waugh

Teenage Dick at the Donmar: clever, nuanced and huge amounts of fun

By Rosemary Waugh

Annie Baker’s The Antipodes: a masterpiece of overlapping parts

By Rosemary Waugh

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Blood Wedding at Young Vic: a woozy, inky world

Blood Wedding at Young Vic: a woozy, inky world

Entering the world of Blood Wedding is like stepping inside a Rembrandt painting.

By Rosemary Waugh

Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. – intruiging, brilliantly performed plays

Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. – intruiging, brilliantly performed plays

The 81-year-old dramatist’s taste for slyly shape-shifting theatre is on display in this quartet of four new works for the…

By Rosemary Waugh

Robert Icke’s Oedipus: a time-bending, contemporary take on Sophocles’s tragedy

Robert Icke’s Oedipus: a time-bending, contemporary take on Sophocles’s tragedy

Robert Icke has a thing for playing with time. The British director’s Oedipus for Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, which premiered…

By Rosemary Waugh

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