Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, published in 1898, is one of the best ghost stories. Chilling and elusive, it has subtle psychological depths. Oscar Wilde thought it “the most wonderful, lurid, p ...
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Adrien Brody, the American actor, is famed for his lead role in The Pianist, the Polish holocaust film directed by Roman Polanski, which won him an Oscar for Best Actor. He is making his London stage ...
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Shakespeare’s last tragedy and most political play has never been popular with the general theatregoer. It usually works best at times of national strife when Left and Right find they can use it ...
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Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, written in anger and compassion, begins in farce and ends in tragedy. “What can God do against the stupidity of men?” The action is set at the end of the Irish Civ ...
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