On Theatre
A devil to relish
The stories that tell us that women are damned if they play the game of sexual availability and just as doomed if they don’t
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
Family troubles
Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Doctor in a spin
West End zingers on stage now
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table