Lloyd Evans

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…

In a league of her own

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

In a league of her own

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

Sense of humour failure

17 September 2016 9:00 am

Coleridge deemed the narrative structure of The Alchemist perfect. But, I wonder. A landowner quits plague-ridden London and his cunning…

Putting the flag out: Martin McDougall (Howard) and Sean Delaney (John) in ‘Labyrinth’

Sense of humour failure

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

Coleridge deemed the narrative structure of The Alchemist perfect. But, I wonder. A landowner quits plague-ridden London and his cunning…

Putting the flag out: Martin McDougall (Howard) and Sean Delaney (John) in ‘Labyrinth’

Sense of humour failure

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

Coleridge deemed the narrative structure of The Alchemist perfect. But, I wonder. A landowner quits plague-ridden London and his cunning…

Brackish as old Brylcream

10 September 2016 9:00 am

Kenneth Branagh’s obsession with Larry Olivier’s career is becoming such a bizarre act of theatrical necromancy that it deserves to…

On tap: Kenneth Branagh as Archie Rice in ‘The Entertainer’

Brackish as old Brylcream

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

Kenneth Branagh’s obsession with Larry Olivier’s career is becoming such a bizarre act of theatrical necromancy that it deserves to…