Royal Court
Comedian does gig in support of ... writersFriday, 25 May 2012Comedians like other figures in the arts are used to being asked to support worthy causes. It’s not often those worthy causes are in the arts themselves.That has not stopped Simon Amstell, the former presenter Never Mind the Buzzcocks and author of... Read more... |
Love, Love, Love, Royal Court TheatreFriday, 04 May 2012
The best playwrights have an antenna-like ability to pick up, and respond to, the new conflicts and fault lines that appear in society. Over the past five or so years, the antagonism between the baby-boomer generation, who are now parents with... Read more... |
Vera Vera Vera, Royal Court TheatreTuesday, 27 March 2012
There is nothing quite so exciting as witnessing the debut of a fresh new voice. But young writers can be rather frail creatures, and their exposure in the high-profile Royal Court Young Writers Festival might sometimes highlight their failings as... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Martin CrimpSaturday, 10 March 2012
Playwright Martin Crimp is one of British theatre’s best-kept secrets. Although his neon-lit name appears in the theatre capitals of Europe, with his work a big hit at festivals all over the continent, here he is better known to students - who love... Read more... |
Goodbye to All That, Royal Court TheatreTuesday, 28 February 2012
The Royal Court has been finding and developing young writers for four decades. Its Young Writers Festival has helped launch the careers of a variety of talents such as Simon Stephens (winner of the 2005 Olivier for Best Newcomer), Christopher Shinn... Read more... |
In Basildon, Royal Court TheatreThursday, 23 February 2012
Is there a more evocative location than Essex? In his 2000 play Under the Blue Sky, one of David Eldridge’s characters shouts the unforgettable words: “I’m from Essex and I’m dancing!” Now back at this venue for the first time since that play,... Read more... |
Haunted Child, Royal Court TheatreFriday, 09 December 2011
Can you replace a wife with a doctrine? Under normal circumstances, the question would be absurd, but given that Joe Penhall’s new play, which opened last night, is the latest of a crop that have explored belief, spirituality and religion, the... Read more... |
Death and the Maiden, Harold Pinter TheatreTuesday, 25 October 2011
At the newly renamed Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly the Comedy), the inaugural show is a special tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, who died in 2008. The subject matter of Ariel Dorfman’s play, which won an Olivier Award on its first... Read more... |
Jumpy, Royal Court TheatreThursday, 20 October 2011
“Why does anyone ever have kids?” By the time a character in April De Angelis’s new comedy utters this exasperated exclamation, there are many in the audience - whether parents or children, or both - who must have had the same thought. And more than... Read more... |
Bang Bang Bang, Royal Court TheatreSunday, 16 October 2011
“Go home. This is not your business. This is not your war.” So a Congolese warlord tells Sadhbh, an Irish human-rights defender, in Stella Feehily’s new drama for Out of Joint. Has the arrogance and exploitation of colonialism been replaced by the... Read more... |
Truth and Reconciliation, Royal Court TheatreMonday, 05 September 2011
Can an ordinary wooden chair be an instrument of torture? Of course, every brute investigation makes use of such furniture, whether as a place to tie the victim down, or as a weapon to attack them with. But, as Debbie Tucker Green’s new play so... Read more... |
The Faith Machine, Royal Court TheatreThursday, 01 September 2011
A monolithic slab, like a giant incarnation of a Biblical tablet of stone, dominates Mark Thompson’s set for Jamie Lloyd's production of the third play by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Nothing else is so solid in this big, weighty work, which wrestles... Read more... |
