618 stories by "Fergus Morgan"
Hull is UK City of Culture 2017. Which means that this year the city will play host to a jam-packed catalogue of cultural events,
A terminally ill journalist. A naive young girl. A hotel room. A violent soldier. A rape. A dead baby. Ali Pidsley’s production marks the opening salvo in Rift'…
David Tennant has had a go. Benedict Cumberbatch has taken a stab at it. And now fellow star of BBC Steven Moffat
Glenda Jackson as King Lear? Harriet Walter as Prospero? Michelle Terry as Henry V? And now Tamsin Greig as Malvolio? It’s almost
It may be the nation’s favourite Shakespeare, but when you stop and think about it, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pretty damn problematic: a
Gary Barlow is taking over the world, one step at a time. He’s already dominated the small screen as a judge on BBC
An epistolary tale documenting the global diaspora of one Italian family. A heated discussion stripping away layers of latent prejudice in a
Inspired by a desire to understand the rage that fuelled riots across England in 2011, Arinze Kene’s Good Dog is an ambitious, sprawling
In 2000, two infamous cyclists " Lance Armstrong and Marco “the Pirate” Pantani " fought out a thrilling contest during Stage 12 of
For the first 55 minutes of its one hour running time, Lucy Burke’s Glitter Punch is little more than a sweet, cringingly adolescent story
Zoe Mills’ Killing Time presents us with a mother daughter relationship, not in the play, but in the cast. Still Open All
Good Will Hunting. Dead Poets Society. The History Boys. Dramas about teaching tend to follow a pattern (and tend to star Robin Williams).
Run the Beast Down, the debut play from writer, director and musician Titas Halder, is a bewildering, kaleidoscopic tale of an impressionable young man gradually losing his
"Olivier, Hall, and Nunn had it easy. Norris has it all to do." As Rufus Norris comes under attack, Fergus Morgan explores the troublesome business of theatre and nation building.
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Ted Hughes’ classic 1968 children’s novel The Iron Man should be compulsory reading. It’s a heartwarming modern-day myth about improbable allies that celebrates
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, a fascist went raving, spewing out essentialist propaganda within earshot of his
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet Russia and, at the Arcola Theatre, revolution is in the air with
Welcome to Lacy's, a dusty, unkempt Massachusetts general store with no customers, few prospects, and an awful lot of debt. Proprietor Gene
The four friends that depart for the Western Front at the end of Christopher Luscombe's Edwardian reimagining of Love's Labour's Lost for the RSC, return in his twin production of Much Ado A…
The RSC's twin productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing have enjoyed a sparkling few years, first playing to acclaim in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014, before being revive…
It's been 35 years since Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger's Dreamgirls opened on Broadway, and although it won six Tony awards, has
It's that time of year. Oxford Street is rammed, there are fewer than choccies left in your advent calendar, and you've already
Was there ever a more spine-chilling, heart-warming, consistently inspiring festive tale than A Christmas Carol? And was there ever a more perfectly
After what only feels like minutes since his Off-Broadway production of Lazarus fell to Earth in King's Cross, the sizzlingly hot Belgian
There is something quite wonderful about stripping a Disneyfied fairytale back to its roots, something joyous about dispensing with all the corporate
