featured image: Benedict Cumberbatch © Derry Moore/Prestel Publishing It is a truth universally acknowledged by those who deem themselves quintessentially English that every man’s home is his castle. Rooms are spaces of comfort, yet can […]
Theatre | People – Alan Bennett in old age
photo: Catherine Ashmore 4/5 Stars There is a little something of both Miss Havisham and Big Edie in Dorothy Stacpoole, the aged heiress to a decaying Yorkshire country house which she has ‘taken for granted’ […]
Theatre | Punk Rock – A Damning Portrait of Ourselves
When someone inevitably tells you that Punk Rock, by British playwright Simon Stephens, is ‘like The History Boys’, don’t listen to them. If you go into Punk Rock expecting it to be like The History […]
Theatre | Wind in the Willows
4/5 Stars This classic production sees a fresh and lively rework under the direction of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Ian Brown, following the adventures of four distinctive animal characters in an adventure perfect for the festive […]
Theatre | Wind in the Willows
Alan Bennett’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows has become as well established as the original novel. I got the chance to speak with Jack Lord, who plays Ratty in this season’s production […]
The Interview: Guardian Journalist Simon Hattenstone
Lucy Holden is let through the drawbridge of Guardian towers to talk anxiety, madness and famous faces with features-journalist and king of interviews, Simon Hattenstone. Thrown up in a history of brain damage, vanilla […]
The Interview: Phillip Breen "Fear stalks the rehearsal room"
Doesn’t sex and violence obsess every seventeen-year-old boy?” asks Phillip Breen when I question the choice of play that became his directing debut: Ariel Dorfman’s Death And The Maiden – a harrowing tale of […]