“…when people turn violent, you know you’ve told the truth” Yael Farber’s Mies Julie is an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, transplanted from a ballroom in nineteenth-century Sweden to a kitchen in post-apartheid...
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King Lear is, along with Hamlet, a sort of gauge of an actor’s skill. They are the parts by which...
Read MoreArt about the power of art has to deal with the tricky task of being inspiring without being overly worthy; of conveying a higher feeling without being pompous or patronising. Writer Lee Hall has done it before with Billy...
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Aesop’s Fables have been around for ever, almost literally. As though to establish that nothing...
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The mark of great drama is often its ability to use humour. The juxtaposing of comedy and tragedy...
Read More“The performances by the young actors were excellent and consistent, bearing in mind the hundreds of characters they were asked to portray…It would have been an ambitious undertaking for the National or the RSC to mount The Last Days of Mankind. For a drama school, albeit with the co-operation of a major theatre, to present such an accomplished, original and successful production is a real achievement.”
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