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Helen and the pratfall of Troy

06.08.09
Helen is a love story but also a humorous frolic with darker cadences.... more

More muddle than Medea

24.06.09
It doesn't help that every second ticks away before us on a clock on a monitor in Medea/Medea.... more

Hippolytus shows war of chastity and passion

03.03.09
Timberlake Wertenbaker delivers a wonderfully confident translation of Euripides in convincing modern idiom in Hippolytus.... more

Love's labour at the Globe

12.02.09
The Globe is to celebrate affairs of the heart with a series of Shakespeare's plays about young love... more

In Blood gives Euripides a kicking

12.01.09
Euripides called for the balance between the cerebral and sensualas that In Blood: Bacchae offers. ... more

You can’t beat a good X-Factor rant and rave

17.11.08
Back in the mists of 2007BC (Before Crunch), the issue of who had been voted off Strictly/The X Factor was hardly one of national importance... more

Theatre

08.10.08
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

Cage is a dull muddle

30.11.07
Director Markus Michalowski and choreographer Lorca Renoux are simply unable to translate the themes of Cage into convincing theatrical terms.... more

Timeless vision of war

29.11.07
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

Daring to be different

20.11.07
Despite the controversy caused by her last production, theatre director Katie Mitchell is pulling no punches with her interpretation of Women Of Troy.... more

Playing with Greek fire

11.09.07
Production frustrations aside, the Royal Opera's new season has opened on a musical high with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride.... more

Dumbed-down Dionysus

10.09.07
Alan Cumming's deeply ridiculous performance as the God Dionysus outrages and cheapens Euripides's timeless play The Bacchae, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Challenging tale of needless carnage

09.08.07
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

Edinburgh Festival highlights

24.07.07
From theatre to comedy, music and film, our critics pick the best of the Edinburgh Festival.... more

The violent faces of faith

12.01.07
Neil LaBute's Bash - a three-part meditation on child murder in contemporary America - is histrionic, but still chilling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

The luck of the Irish plays

02.01.07
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

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

21.11.06
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

Desire, guilt and dread

09.11.06
The Shared Experience company, under Nancy Meckler's quirkily inventive direction, bravely revives Orestes by Euripides at the Tricycle theatre.... more

Grandage just can't play it safe

25.08.06
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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