Director Lucy Bailey presents The Beggar's Opera not as the romp we might expect, but with an atmosphere reminiscent of William Hogarth's perceptive prints, showing us a sickly world where carousing is always shadowed by complaint... more
Lucy Bailey’s bold production of Julius Caesar, first seen at Stratford in May 2009, begins with a scene that certainly isn’t in Shakespeare’s original... more
Nell Leyshon's Glass Eels is a mildly preposterous drama of unhappy family relations in rural Somerset, dressed up in lashings of flamboyant symbolism, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Lucy Bailey's Don't Look Now is merely eerie compared to the spine-chilling film version, but it does takes time to look deep into the damaged souls of its characters.... more
Playwright Nell Leyshon has plenty to say in Comfort Me With Apples, but just a little more sweating of the small, factual stuff would greatly increase her play's harvest.
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