Reviews of Charlotte Cornfield, Michael Weston King, and Gun Outfit
Latest editorial
Bloody excellent
ANGUS REID sees a Jacobean gore-fest brilliantly transformed into a mordant take on contemporary class prejudice
Full of corpses: The Duchess (of Malfi)
[Tim Morozzo]
ED WAUGH introduces a special event to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike
PAUL DONOVAN recommends an energetic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, that emphasises how psychiatry is a tool in the hands of a racist agenda
IAN SINCLAIR draws our attention to a film, available for everyone to use, to stimulate community discussion and active engagement in the climate emergency
SIMON PARSONS recommends an outstanding revival of the musical based on Argentinian LGBT activist Manuel Puig’s groundbreaking novel
JAMES WALSH previews the smorgasbord of talent and hilarity on show at the Brighton Fringe
The Duchess (of Malfi)
Tramway Glasgow
“YOUR office is full of corpses,” observes a character stepping into the blood-drenched final scene of Zinnie Harris’s adaptation of John Webster’s Jacobean shocker.
All resemblance to Conservative Party HQ is purely intentional and one of the many ways in which this violent, plain-speaking play has been polished up to reflect present-day Britain.
The office is run by an amoral sexist patriarch who abuses anyone, including his own family, to maintain his grip on wealth and power.
Similar stories
GORDON PARSONS salutes the apt return of Brecht’s vaudevillian cartoon drama that retains the vitality of the boxing or the circus ring
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
MARY CONWAY revels in the Irish American language and dense melancholy of O’Neill’s last and little-known play