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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Theatre review: Uncle Vanya
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Almeida Theatre
London N1
ROBERT ICKE is without doubt a director for our times. Fresh from his award-winning Oresteia and a tight, fierce 1984, he brings us an updated Uncle Vanya in which sacred cows are slaughtered wholesale.
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