Theatre
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
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
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