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Thank God for the DVD box set, I’m done with TV

20.08.09
August 20, 2009 is the day the telly died. I’m not quite sure what sounded the death knell but it might have something to do with the How Clean Is Your House?... more

Helen and the pratfall of Troy

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

A-levels must test more than ticking boxes

25.06.09
There are many playground rumours and urban myths about English A-levels being marked by computers, or by people in Indian call centres marking from check-lists... more

The blood ties of brothers in arms

24.06.09
It seems like an apt time for the revival of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.... more

Opening in London this week

21.10.08
The Dead Weather, Jack White's “other” band, comes to The Forum and Walking in My Mind opens at the Hayward Gallery.... more

Oedipus is big, brave and bold

16.10.08
It is an evening of many flaws, but as Ralph Fiennes demonstrates, Oedipus remains irresistibly terrifying. ... more

Irons to make his National debut as former PM

16.01.08
Jeremy Irons is to make his National Theatre debut in a new play on the life of prime minister Harold Macmillan.... more

An aimless gloomy Gypsy

19.01.07
Thank heaven for Eileen Atkins, says Nicholas de Jongh. She's the only one who breathes life and black comedy into There Came A Gypsy Riding.... 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

A touching last act

24.11.06
Frank McGuinness's bitterly comic, beautifully observed play Gates Of Gold alludes to the courage it took to be flamboyantly gay and is both painful and poignant, says Nicholas de Jongh.... 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

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