Phaedra's Love is a brutal, bleak and mercifully brief tragedy that seems to predict, from way back in 1996, the distressing scenes of this summer's riots... 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
Nicholas de Jongh was bewitched by Katie Mitchell's Women of Troy, which recreates the classic Greek tragedy using smart English ladies flaunting their 1940s finery.... more
Despite the controversy caused by her last production, theatre director Katie Mitchell is pulling no punches with her interpretation of Women Of Troy.... more
Alan Cumming's deeply ridiculous performance as the God Dionysus outrages and cheapens Euripides's timeless play The Bacchae, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Helen of Troy is part of the summer season of free theatre at The Scoop - but for an enterprise keen on all-round accessibility it is an odd choice.... more
Neil LaBute's Bash - a three-part meditation on child murder in contemporary America - is histrionic, but still chilling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Playwright Frank McGuinness tells Claire Allfree how he draws on a myriad of experience to speak to audiences about life, death and the unknowable.... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
The Shared Experience company, under Nancy Meckler's quirkily inventive direction, bravely revives Orestes by Euripides at the Tricycle theatre.... more
Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more
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