Could Alan Ayckbourn’s most notorious play have been written today?
The sheer, outrageous power of ‘Absurd Person Singular’, which turns 50 on Sunday, could easily make it prey to modern pieties
The sheer, outrageous power of ‘Absurd Person Singular’, which turns 50 on Sunday, could easily make it prey to modern pieties
Roy Williams's latest, at Hampstead, dares to hold a mirror up to prejudice within the black community, but the drama doesn't entirely gel
The actor returns to the West End to play a grouchy son caring for his unlikeable father, but the jokes make it hard to engage emotionally
In a daring coup de théâtre, 14 actors perform in three plays in three venues all at the same time. And it works
Not even an acting masterclass from Deirdre Davis can save this comedy from collapsing under the weight of its own convoluted premise
Stephen Beresford’s heaven-sent new work stars an immaculately understated Alex Jennings as a priest taking a stand against modernity
The Royal Court teased us with the promise of a premiere by an ‘unknown’, but the end result is not the biting satire it thinks it is
This thematically disjointed take on the Bard’s great tragedy is more likely to confuse young audiences than capture them
Lucas Hnath's audacious sequel to the pioneering 1879 drama, at the Donmar Warehouse, is nothing less than essential viewing