Arts & Culture: Theatre
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In theatre
There's more to life than comedy
- By Andrew Billen
- 02 October
The ghost of Hamlet haunts this winning revival of Chekhov's overlooked first play
Ivanov
Donmar West End, London WC2
Katie Mitchell
- 25 September
Mitchell is an English theatre director who is best known for her bold reworkings of plays by Euripides and Chekhov. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1998 and was made an associate of the Royal National Theatre earlier this year. “. . . some trace of her”, inspired by Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”, is at the Cottesloe, National Theatre, until 21 October. For more information, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Treasure in them there hills
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 25 September
A remarkable theatre company has created high art in an impoverished, conflict-battered Rio favela
When Hamlet ate celery
- By Maisie McCabe
- 24 September
The Factory is an unusual theatre company and its Hamlet is not your usual Hamlet. No show is the same and even the actors aren’t let in on the secret.
New hope for the West End?
- By Annie McDermott
- 22 September
The success of Ivanov this week is a beacon of hope for those who worried that the West End is drowning in a glittering sea of overpriced musicals.
Tailor-made viewing
- By Andrew Billen
- 18 September
There are moments of brilliance in this innovative and haunting production
Helium
The Pit, Barbican, London EC2
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- By David Caute
- 11 September 2008
How to live a braver, wilder life
- By Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- 04 September 2008
Beauty and the beast
- By David Jays
- 28 August 2008
Tory Boyz come to town
- By Tara Hamilton-Miller
- 21 August 2008
Fit for a prince
- By Andrew Billen
- 21 August 2008
A question of character
- By Brian Cathcart
- 14 August 2008
Of love and hunger
- By Ian Irvine
- 14 August 2008
