Phyllida Lloyd

Gilly Gilly review – Cush Jumbo’s searing play about abuse let down by mundane details

Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity

Arifa Akbar

26, Sep, 2022 @12:06 PM

The week in clasical: Macbeth; Brentano String Quartet – review

Anna Pirozzi, Simon Keenlyside and numerous witches jostle for power at Covent Garden. Plus, illuminating accounts of Beethoven and Mendelssohn’s final works

Stephen Pritchard

21, Nov, 2021 @12:30 PM

Herself review – a domestic abuse survivor’s tale in search of the right tone

Co-writer and star Clare Dunne brings grit to this drama about a Dublin single mother doing it for herself, directed by Mamma Mia’s Phyllida Lloyd

Simran Hans

11, Sep, 2021 @2:00 PM

Herself review – Irish abuse drama turns into home-build heartwarmer

Clare Dunne stars in and writes this self-empowering story of a battered Dublin cleaner who builds her own house, directed by The Iron Lady’s Phyllida Lloyd

Peter Bradshaw

09, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM

West Side Story, a Sopranos prequel and Bond: the best films to see in autumn 2021

Spielberg revamps Bernstein, young Tony is lured by the mob, Phyllida Lloyd tackles spousal abuse, Top Gun returns – and Daniel Craig calls time on 007 with bangs galore

Peter Bradshaw

24, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

Zainab Hasan: a remarkable star calling time on stereotypes

In our new series profiling exciting theatre talents, the actor-writer remembers lessons from Phyllida Lloyd and rapping in Molière

Arifa Akbar

03, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM

'I don't want another blockbuster!' How Phyllida Lloyd is following up Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady

After scoring two global hits, the director has made a low-budget film about a mother who builds her way out of homelessness – and it’s inspired by an article in the Guardian

Cath Clarke

05, Oct, 2020 @4:45 AM

London film festival to be 'most accessible yet' as lineup unveiled

Organisers say they are ‘going big’ with screenings online and in independent cinemas

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

08, Sep, 2020 @9:30 AM

Play on! 12 of the best Shakespeare productions to stream

Theatres may be closed but you can celebrate the Bard’s birthday on Thursday by watching one of his plays online

Chris Wiegand

22, Apr, 2020 @11:06 AM

The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

Guardian Film

30, Dec, 2019 @2:47 PM

'A world to escape into': how theatre gives prisoners a way out

The show Inside Bitch, made by women with experience of the penal system, dismantles Bad Girls stereotypes, while new play The Jumper Factory explores fear behind men’s bravado

Matt Trueman

26, Feb, 2019 @6:00 AM

We condemn the destruction of Gaza cultural centre in Israeli airstrike | Letter

Letter: Fourteen leading playwrights and theatre directors, including Mike Bartlett, Caryl Churchill, Vicky Featherstone and Rufus Norris, describe the great rage and deep pain of their Palestinian friends and colleagues

Letters

16, Aug, 2018 @2:56 PM