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Humanity lost in King Lear's cruel kingdom

26.01.11
Greg Hicks is a startlingly physical King Lear. From the moment we first see him, his collapse into madness feels inevitable... more

Rough edges and a chemistry lost in Antony and Cleopatra

13.12.10
Michael Boyd's modern-dress version of Antony and Cleopatra affords pleasures but also real frustrations... more

Lovers' coalition in Antony and Cleopatra

11.05.10
Fiona Mountford doubts whether the RSC's Antony and Cleopatra would have changed the voting system or abandoned the denarius in favour of the euro.... more

Reality bites the heart of old Russia in RSC

25.09.09
The RSC’s “Revolutions” programme is a theatrical exploration of Russia and the former Soviet Union.... more

No room for me at this Chatto reunion

01.04.09
One of my first jobs after leaving university was to work for the feminist publisher Carmen Callil... more

Who foots the bill if we pay granny for childcare?

26.03.09
Yesterday I was tempted to phone my mum to ask her to hide the newspaper. A few times a month, my dad does emergency childcare for us. A new report suggests he should be paid for his services. And I don't want him getting any funny ideas.... more

Hunter's one-ape show in Kafka's Monkey

20.03.09
Shoulders hunched, knees jerked forward, one low-hanging hand contorted, Kathryn Hunter gazes at us with swivel-eyed interest in Kafka's Monkey.... more

Off to catch the Moor the merrier

24.02.09
Doctor, I've got this Othello complex. Last year, I saw the haunting Chiwetel Ejiofor production at the Donmar, with a silky Ewan McGregor as Iago. Then Kathryn Hunter's RSC Othello came to the Hackney Empire, so we headed there to watch one of the most intriguing new generation of directors working out the Jealous Guy theme.... more

Beckett short-changed

29.08.08
Beckett's uncompromising stage poetry is almost entirely wasted, replaced instead by a lot of offputtingly mannered acting in Fragments.... more

Juliet finally follows her father into Shakespeare

23.07.08
The daughter of actor Mark Rylance is following in his footsteps with her own theatre company presenting Shakespeare... more

The Diver takes Noh for an answer

24.06.08
The Diver takes stories from the Noh tradition and minces them up with a contemporary murder mystery but it's not a winning combination.... more

Beckett's morsels of misery

21.09.07
A quintet of short works from Samuel Beckett, Fragments is black and bleak - probably one for the melancholics to avoid.... more

Brook heads Young Vic line-up

23.05.07
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

Earthy but underwhelming

30.08.06
This earthy version of Lorca's best-known work Yerma is let down by a jerky production that at times resembles a world music festival run out of control, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Seduced by the barbed charms of Yerma

29.08.06
Emotion and poetry bloom in abundance in Helena Kaut-Howson's production of Lorca's play Yerma, with Kathryn Hunter producing a heart-wrenching performance as the protagonist of the piece.... more

Helena lands Potter role

02.08.06
Film news: Helena Bonham Carter has won the role of evil Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter film. The 40-year-old star will play one of Lord Voldemort's followers in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.... more


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