Notes from Underground, Print Room
"I am spiteful! I am ill! You are not going to like this!" With these words Harry Lloyd opens his one-man show that adapts the Dostoevsky 1864 novella that is often hailed as the first work …
"I am spiteful! I am ill! You are not going to like this!" With these words Harry Lloyd opens his one-man show that adapts the Dostoevsky 1864 novella that is often hailed as the first work …
There's cruel comedy and human drama aplenty in Fortune's Fool, so much so that it's hard sometimes to know whether we're watching farce or tragedy. But it's a mixture that works well in Luc…
Southwark Playhouse's new production of The Love Girl and the Innocent is London's first in over 30 years, and there's a reason Alexander Solzhenitsyn's play rarely reaches the stage: it's a…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was two years out of prison camp when he wrote The Love Girl and the Innocent. The experience of the eight years of hell that followed his sentence in July 1945 for an…
It's hard to imagine much upstaging Martyn Jacques, the indomitable falsetto frontman of the Tiger Lillies, but the gaping mouth of an enormous mythical fish that seems to have swum straight…
The last two years have seen the Tiger Lillies hit a prolific peak of activity, to be found as often on the theatrical as the concert stage, drawing on plenty of influences from outside the …
The new South Bank Show has glided into its second season with a seemingly effortless profile of multi-hyphenate Tim Minchin. In case we've forgotten what exactly we admire him for these day…
There's something off stage, something loud and threatening, pulsating in dark red, at the beginning of Julien Cottereau's solo mime piece Imagine Toi. This is a show of fears and sweetnesse…
In the Globe to Globe season, the Caucasus is proving as fruitful a ground as any for new views on old texts. Georgia's Marjanishvili company, under director Levan Tsuladze, proved the regio…
You might have wondered if, when Armenia was offered King John as part of the Globe to Globe season, they felt they'd drawn the short straw. Not a bit of it.read more