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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Maggie O’Farrell’s multi-prize-winning novel about Shakespeare’s family has been adapted for the RSC by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Erica Whyman. 18-year-old William, a Latin tutor, living in W ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Uncle Vanya at Harold Pinter Theatre, London SW1 Which is Anton Chekhov’s greatest play? The most likely answer from those who love Chekhov is the one they are seeing at that mo ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Rosmersholm at Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 August Strindberg declared Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmerholm was “unintelligible to the theatre public, mystical to the semi-educated b ...
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