At times a greater sense of volatility would help, yet A Walk In The Woods is a succinct, well-crafted drama that it would be wrong to dismiss as a period piece... more
The artistic director of Kilburn's award-winning Tricycle theatre blamed Coalition spending cuts as he announced he was quitting after 27 years in the job... more
Tactical Questioning covers the Baha Mousa Inquiry, which examined the 2003 death in the custody of the British Army in Basra of Mousa, who was found with 93 injuries to his body... more
Death of an Iraqi at the hands of the British Army will be examined on stage only weeks before the publication of an independent report into the
scandal
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The Covent Garden theatre’s prestigious training scheme has produced some of the best directors in the country — and now, Nick Curtis reports, a West End season showcases the new generation... more
Britain's top military commander has told why he is taking a delegation from the armed forces to the theatre to promote greater understanding of the task in Afghanistan... more
Women, Power and Politics is the Tricycle’s latest cycle of new plays by some of our best female writers — and it couldn’t be more timely, director Indhu Rubasingham tells Johanna Thomas-Corr.... more
The Arts Council has encountered ridicule and anger over attempts to force theatre and museum trustees to disclose their sexuality to obtain funding... more
Arriving from New York garlanded with a Pulitzer Prize and dripping with acclaim, Fiona Mountford was disappointed by Nicolas Kent's lacklustre production of Doubt: A Parable.... more
Tony Blair is investigated by the International Criminal Court to see if he could be indicted for aggression against Iraq in Called To Account, a remarkable piece of political theatre.... more
In the absence of a public inquiry, director Nicolas Kent is staging his own tribunal to test whether the Prime Minister should go on trial for 'the crime of aggression against Iraq'.... more
Inept, unconvincing and painfully unamusing - Nicholas de Jongh's damning verdict of The War Next Door, a black comedy about domestic violence.... more
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