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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The Lehman Trilogy is storytelling at its finest
In Sam Mendes’s revival, an epic narrative of American capitalism is translated into thrillingly stripped-back theatre.
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Giant is a generous and pitiless portrait of Roald Dahl
This Royal Court play about the author’s anti-Semitism argues for and against Israel with a composure as uncanny as one…
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The National’s modern Coriolanus
David Oyelowo is best as Rome’s greatest soldier when he loses his temper.
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I exposed Roald Dahl’s anti-Semitism. Seeing it play out on stage was surreal
Also this week: preaching through pints, writing my memoir, and the priest’s role in funerals.
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The Death of England trilogy captures a nation adrift
The strengths of these plays – staged on a St George’s Cross – is that they are largely led by…
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The National Theatre’s The Grapes of Wrath does the novel justice
Theatre cannot recreate the characterless vignettes John Steinbeck called his “generals”, but compensates with atmosphere.
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