Theatre
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
Scares and spies
From ghostly thrills to Cold War chills
Expensive thrills
Turandot, Royal Opera
Silence in the Phoenix
On the transcendent qualities of acting
Lashings of child-murder
Our reviewer enjoys two very different approaches to killing
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
The hollow horseman
Wole Soyinka’s postcolonial pride offers no answers to Nigeria’s Christian deaths
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
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