As the literary novel fades from relevance, James Graham is the writer for our era
The author of Dear England has channelled the people and events that made modern Britain.
By Jason Cowley
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It’s the Economy, Stupid is a polemic about the perils of capitalism
This show is both a whistlestop tour of modern economics and Joe Sellman-Leava’s attempt to understand why he’s always broke.
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London’s season of sexed-up Shakespeare
New productions of Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing both burnish their texts with hot celebrity appeal – but…
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Kyoto gives voice to the urgency of the climate crisis
Soho Place’s perceptive and absorbing production shrewdly reminds its audience that there is nothing more exciting than saving the world.
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Onegin at the Royal Opera House: a spectacular blur
This ballet is visually gorgeous – but the story is lost in the whirl of movement.
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Elton John’s The Devil Wears Prada musical can’t improve on the film
The songs don’t stick, and the fashion is more The Only Way Is Essex than made in Milan.
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Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy makes for an inventive, genre-expanding ballet
This futuristic cocktail from the Royal Opera House is true to the spirit of Atwood’s novels.
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Robert Icke’s Oedipus is a devastating, seamless update of Sophocles
This production imagines Oedipus (Mark Strong) as a contemporary politician – and achieves a level of catharsis rare for any…
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