Set in a brothel, with a revolution raging outside, Jean Genet’s influential and notoriously difficult play The Balcony offers a juxtaposition of fantasy and reality, with a constantly shifting ...

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore stand as one of the most significant alternative comedy act of the last few generations. For all Monty Python’s innovation, Pete and Dud arguably pushed the limits of ...

As a double bill, these two Terrence Rattigan plays make for odd bedfellows, sharing little common ground and demonstrating two distinct extremes of the author’s range. The Browning Version, ...

Harold Pinter’s classic interrogation of the integrity of memory and its relationship with history is, intriguingly, being revisited by Peter Hall 36 years after he directed its world premiere for ...

Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane, a defining monument of 60s radical theatre, is a play whose notoriety has perhaps outlasted its potency. Themes of bisexuality, domestic violence and simulated ...

It seems that JG Ballard’s 1989 story ‘The Enormous Space’ has touched a nerve with the contemporary drama world. In 2005, Antony Sher made a brief but acclaimed return to television drama in ...

This is an intriguing album. Beautifully packaged and hugely professional, it arrived bearing all the hallmarks of a major new work. Yet there is no website, no hint of a record label, and no press ...

For his last film, Gods and Monsters, director Bill Condon chose to explore the character of another director, James Whale, a man whose work took centre stage while its creator neatly evaded the ...