Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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Lyonesse, the word conjures up myths, Arthurian legends and lost kingdoms swept away by the sea and drowned forever. Lyonesse is a Cornish Atlantis. Penelope Skinner’s Lyonesse, however, turns out to ...
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12 million people in Britain have some sort of disability, both visible and invisible. The National Theatre describes Francesca Martinez’s All of Us as “a passionate, unflinching insight into the huma ...
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2,500 years on, Ian Rickson directs an all-female cast in Kae Tempest’s Paradise, a contemporary morality play, an adaptation of Philoctetes, the play Sophocles wrote during the Peloponnesian War and ...
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