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Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy is Senior Editor at the Economist and presents the culture show Free Thinking on Radio 3. She tweets at @annemcelvoy

Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy

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“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy

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In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem

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An interesting new West End show about young millennials has echoes of far older classics

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The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common

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Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?

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