The Veil is rather slow-moving and heavy. The ghostliness is never fully convincing. And McPherson's writing, though at times razor-sharp, is often oddly prosaic... more
Nick Stafford's War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a Devon farm horse amid the horrors of the First World War, makes a welcome return.
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A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist.
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No 20th century British play better demonstrates the dangers and intolerances of religious fundamentalism than Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
In The Seafarer, Conor McPherson, that exquisite playwright whose characters often see life through an alcoholic's glass darkly, allows flickers of optimism to shine upon his sombre, Irish world-picture.... more
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