In The Penal Colony presents the idea that a person's guilt is hard to determine conclusively. In doing so it casts doubt on the redemptive possibilities of the judicial system... more
A hurricane destroyed his home, drugs took his mother and a drug dealer shot his stepfather - it's no wonder writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is interested in 'what people build a life on when they don't have options'... more
Mick Gordon’s outdoor production of The Tempest is a stripped-down, spirited interpretation that runs for not much more than an hour and a half... more
Acclaimed theatre director Peter Brook has signalled his intention to start handing over the reins at the Paris theatre he has led for more than 30 years... more
Tarell Alvin McCraney has been voted Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Here the young American reveals how a childhood of violence and abuse shapes his plays... more
Dvorak's touching opera concerns a water nymph, Rusalka, who longs to feel human emotions. She quickly learns how love can be followed by betrayal.... more
Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.... more
Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season.... more
Gently paced yet sharply felt, Athol Fugard's Sizwe Banzi is Dead, a quietly spoken indictment of the apartheid regime, reaches the parts most political protests don't reach.... more
Compared to Peter Brook's nine-hour production of Mahabharata for the 1985 Avignon Festival, Stuart Wood's three-hour version is a snip of a show. But, golly, how it sags, says Sarah Frater.... more
Last week's death of Steven Pimlott, one of Britain's most versatile directors, tinged ENO's revival of his staging of La Boheme with a mood of elegy.... more
Two of Britain's best-loved actresses are leading our charge for Oscar success. But which one of these queens of stage will get the golden statue? Nick Curtis assesses the form.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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