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
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more
This week I've been wondering if we're back in the Eighties. Or possibly the Twenties. It started on Saturday when I went to see Her Naked Skin, a play set during the suffragette era. It's been held up as the bright future of theatre because it is the first by a woman - Rebecca Lenkiewicz - to make the main Olivier stage at the National... more
Commissioned to mark 90 years since women first won the right to vote, Her Naked Skin is set in 1913 at the height of the suffragette movement.... more
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s inept new version of An Enemy of the People veers between grating modernism and old-fashioned solecism, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
The Astronaut Wives' Club, by the talented young Al Smith, is like Desperate Housewives taken back 40 years and with all remaining men from Wisteria Lane blasted into space.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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