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Helen and the pratfall of Troy

2009-08-05T23:00:00Z

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

More muddle than Medea

2009-06-23T23:00:00Z

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

Hippolytus shows war of chastity and passion

2009-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Love's labour at the Globe

2009-02-12T10:14:36Z

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

In Blood gives Euripides a kicking

2009-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

You can�t beat a good X-Factor rant and rave

2008-11-17T08:40:36Z

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

Theatre

2008-10-02T10:15:37Z

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.

Cage is a dull muddle

2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

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

Timeless vision of war

2007-11-29T00:00:00Z

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.

Daring to be different

2007-11-20T14:01:33Z

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

Playing with Greek fire

2007-09-10T23:00:00Z

Production frustrations aside, the Royal Opera's new season has opened on a musical high with Gluck's Iphig�nie en Tauride.

Dumbed-down Dionysus

2007-09-09T23:00:00Z

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

Challenging tale of needless carnage

2007-08-08T23:00:00Z

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.

Edinburgh Festival highlights

2007-07-24T08:54:19Z

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

The violent faces of faith

2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

The luck of the Irish plays

2007-01-02T14:25:30Z

Playwright Frank McGuinness tells Claire Allfree how he draws on a myriad of experience to speak to audiences about life, death and the unknowable.

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

2006-11-21T15:20:40Z

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.

Desire, guilt and dread

2006-11-09T00:00:00Z

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

Grandage just can't play it safe

2006-08-25T15:45:32Z

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.