Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” (“Empireo”) In Milan
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Feb 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Gender
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Mar 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Jan 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Annoying as it is, I have to start with a spoiler alert. That’s because what’s most interesting to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Aug 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Jan 2017 | News, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
For the past six months there has only been one news story in town: Brexit. In a referendum on...
Read MorePosted by Sam Solnick | 23rd Oct 2016 | Essay, United Kingdom
Oil, Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida, begins in a bitingly cold Cornwall in 1889 when a...
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