Theatre
Heartless Heights
Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production
Go west, young man
Terry Gilliam holds court in exile
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
The censor returns
New Lord Chamberlains are policing the stage with puritan zeal
All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Grasping the nettle
Romeo runs into legal difficulties …
The Dresser Undressed
The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood