Lloyd Evans

Snarly rather than menacing: Glenda Jackson as King Lear

Angry bird

10 November 2016 3:00 pm

Dynastic affairs and international relations were once a seamless continuum. Royal weddings accompanied peace treaties. An heirless realm was vulnerable…

Snarly rather than menacing: Glenda Jackson as King Lear

Angry bird

10 November 2016 3:00 pm

Dynastic affairs and international relations were once a seamless continuum. Royal weddings accompanied peace treaties. An heirless realm was vulnerable…

Just kidding

5 November 2016 9:00 am

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer is haunted by its own antecedents. Viewers are apt to feel that a new production lacks…

Just kidding

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer is haunted by its own antecedents. Viewers are apt to feel that a new production lacks…

Just kidding

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer is haunted by its own antecedents. Viewers are apt to feel that a new production lacks…

Sweet and sour

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Great subject, terminal illness. Popular dramas like Love Story, Terms of Endearment and My Night With Reg handle the issue…

Dread and anxiety haunt every beat of the play: Elizabeth Debicki as Mona Sanders in David Hare’s ‘The Red Barn’

Sweet and sour

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

Great subject, terminal illness. Popular dramas like Love Story, Terms of Endearment and My Night With Reg handle the issue…

Dread and anxiety haunt every beat of the play: Elizabeth Debicki as Mona Sanders in David Hare’s ‘The Red Barn’

Sweet and sour

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

Great subject, terminal illness. Popular dramas like Love Story, Terms of Endearment and My Night With Reg handle the issue…

Ziggurat of bilge

22 October 2016 9:00 am

Ella Hickson’s new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there’s a candlelit soap opera set…

Ziggurat of bilge

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

Ella Hickson’s new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there’s a candlelit soap opera set…

Ziggurat of bilge

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

Ella Hickson’s new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there’s a candlelit soap opera set…

Ziggurat of bilge

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

Ella Hickson’s new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there’s a candlelit soap opera set…

Box of tricks

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

Tragic grandeur: Tom Hollander as Henry Carr in Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’

Box of tricks

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

Tragic grandeur: Tom Hollander as Henry Carr in Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’

Box of tricks

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…

Kate Tempest

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…

Top of the Pops with silk tights

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…

Kate Tempest

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…

Kate Tempest

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…

Top of the Pops with silk tights

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…

Top of the Pops with silk tights

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…

Hilarious, puzzling, boring

1 October 2016 9:00 am

No Man’s Land isn’t quite as great as its classic status suggests. At first sight the script is a bit…

Hilarious, puzzling, boring

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

No Man’s Land isn’t quite as great as its classic status suggests. At first sight the script is a bit…

Hilarious, puzzling, boring

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

No Man’s Land isn’t quite as great as its classic status suggests. At first sight the script is a bit…

In a league of her own

24 September 2016 9:00 am

The Emperor seems like a worthy lesson in Ethiopian history. Haile Selassie’s final days are recounted by a retinue of…