Two prisoners and a condemned man vie for dominion of their cell in a well executed production leavened by fantasy sequences
March 2016
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Scene change: the problems with relocating plays
Culture webchats
Uzo Aduba webchat – as it happened
The Maids review – TV star power can’t revive Genet’s murderous romp
The Maids review – Uzo Aduba is ferocious in Genet's lost landmark
February 2016
'They looked like such good girls': the mystery of Genet's murderous Maids
Unwomanly monsters, revolutionaries or worms who turned? As Jean Genet’s classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer’s wife and daughter, still has the power to perplex
March 2015
The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco review – fear and loathing in a Zimbabwean prison
Andrew Whaley’s play is well directed by Elayce Ismail but demands a familiarity with the country’s history that obscures its allegorical meaning
July 2014
Rambert Event; Of Saints and Go-Go Boys – review
Watching Rambert's dancers up close from just a few feet away proves a revelation for Luke Jennings
May 2014
Louis-Ferdinand Céline and extreme writing - quiz
On the 'outlaw' author's anniversary, we bring you in for questioning about literature's extremists
January 2013
The Maids – review
Stewart Laing's vivid staging of Jean Genet's The Maids is flawed but welll worth seeing, writes Clare Brennan
December 2011
Michael Billington’s A to Z of modern drama
A is for absurdism
Michael Billington opens a new series on modern theatre with a twentieth-century movement that has lost its momentum in a complex world
November 2011
Parallel Stories by Peter Nádas – review
Tibor Fischer is exasperated by a navel-gazing historical soup
August 2011
This week's new exhibitions
Ron Arad's Curtain Call | Mystics Or Rationalists | Rick Davies | Jean Genet | We Colonised The Moon | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | James Capper | Memory Of A Hope
July 2011
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