Recent years have seen a sustained revival - of the work of Terence Rattigan. New productions have been greeted with surprised delight that the acknowledged master of the 'well-made play' can continu
A provincial town is in search of a hero. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As Ilya arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary pow
In Stephen Jeffreys's new version of The Beggar's Opera, the world's first ever musical has been reimagined as a performance on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.To pass the time, the
Katherine's life has come to a standstill. Her husband Tom has left her for a younger woman and her once-glamorous mother Dorothy is slowly losing her mind.As Dorothy's condition worsens, Katherine's
Inspired by "La Ronde", and portraying the same 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters, this work offers a re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler's taboo-breaking 1897 original. In place of Schnitzler's s
A book for actors, directors, students and teachers of movement in the theatre, "The Space to Move" is bursting with energy and ideas, passion and commitment. In it, the author describes an inspiring
For forty-something Hildy, political activism comes easier than dealing with the disorder of her family life: her druggie son; her philandering soon-to-be-ex husband; her father, misbehaving in a huge
A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.General Kotov, decorated hero of the
First staged at the national theatre in 1988, this title is reissued in a new edition alongside the 21st anniversary revival at the Almeida Theatre in the autumn.
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact
Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cucko
Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. The new versions remain faithful to the original Greek, yet the language has all the immediacy of contemporary Eng
The wife of an insurance magnate, suspicious that her husband is having an affair, sends him a lascvicious invitation from an "anonymous" admirer, just to see if he’ll show. The action of A Fle
