Cultural Capital

‘There is quicksand,’ here George tells his guest Nick during their destructively competitive evening, a warning that nothing in George and Martha’s relationship and their homelife is quite what it seems.

‘Things of tinsel and sawdust,’ Noel Coward’s perspective on acting, on stardom and the demands of the profession remain relevant even 87-years after Present Laughter was written.

Early twentieth-century literature and drama is filled with characters whose inner life far exceeds the limitations of their outer life, working class men and women whose great tragedy is never being able to live the lives they are capable of and as a res…

The cost is the cost.

There is a clear affinity between Irish and classic Russian dramatists connected through an existential pastoralism, a relational quality that sees a shared understanding of human identity in the countryside, inner life and the complexities of daily inter…

“Blood for blood,” the story of Electra and her mother Clytemnestra is one of mutual grief and a weaponised, almost pathological sense of revenge that has them pulling in opposite directions in the search for justice.

Transferring to the West End just a few days after Alan Ayckbourn’s excellent 1970s-set How the Other Half Loves, the Stratford East Theatre production of Abigail’s Party continues an important examination of British domestic life this month as class, asp…

With most theatre creatives and critics decamped to Edinburgh for the Festival, August used to be a rather barren month for new openings in London, but with rising costs and overwhelming amounts of choice in Scotland, for those remaining in the capital ov…