Opera, Sexual Violence, And The Art Of Telling Terrible Tales
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by Peter Tregear | 5th Jul 2015 | Essay, London, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by John Drakakis | 9th Apr 2015 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...
Read MorePosted by Paula James | 5th Sep 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
Read MorePosted by Andrew Blades | 4th Aug 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
Read MorePosted by Laura Swift | 23rd Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
A new production of Medea recently opened at London’s National Theatre to critical acclaim. This...
Read MorePosted by Preti Taneja | 1st Jul 2014 | Adaptation, Essay, London, United Kingdom
I don’t really go in for creative mash-ups. You know: Alien Vs. Predator, or the films where...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Science is an area of perennial fascination for the theatre. In the past, plays as various as Tom...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 28th Sep 2012 | London, Review, Russia, United Kingdom
Dark comedy and psychological breakdown are never far from the surface in Benedict Andrews’ bleak...
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