Peter Shaffer

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After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre
Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Michael Billington

20, Sep, 2023 @7:06 AM

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Shelley Maxwell: the soul-stirring master mover who makes superheroes dance
From The Secret Life of Bees to The Marvels, she is the choreographer everyone wants. The Jamaican dynamo talks about turning humans into horses, turbo-charging TV debates and her dream Bob Marley gig

Chris Wiegand

02, May, 2023 @11:35 AM

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‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable
Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination

Miriam Gillinson

11, Oct, 2022 @10:37 AM

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Noises Off: the farce masterclass that is truly revealing
Michael Frayn’s comedy is not just extremely funny but also acknowledges the fragile artifice of order – in theatre and the world beyond

Michael Billington

08, Sep, 2022 @5:00 AM

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Petina Gappah: 'Last book to make me laugh? The cheese chapter in Three Men in a Boat'
The Zimbabwean writer and lawyer on crying over Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, the influence of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the books she feels have been overlooked in 2020

Petina Gappah

02, Oct, 2020 @9:00 AM

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National Theatre announces final free streams including Small Island
The NT’s popular online initiative continues with the ambitious 2019 adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Windrush novel and four more shows

Chris Wiegand

11, Jun, 2020 @11:01 AM

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Equus review – Peter Shaffer's homoerotic classic is exhilarating
Ned Bennett brilliantly directs the landmark 1973 play about a teenager who has blinded horses

Michael Billington

25, Feb, 2019 @12:05 AM

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Ned Bennett: 'I want audiences to soil themselves and throw up'
He lit up An Octoroon, had a cult smash with Pomona and let loose deadly bunnies in Buggy Baby. Now the director is set to stun audiences with Peter Shaffer’s psychodrama Equus

Matt Trueman

04, Feb, 2019 @5:27 PM

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Top 10 books about psychiatry
Spanning unusual cruelty and extraordinary kindness, authors from Pat Barker to Janet Frame explore an unsettling branch of medicine

Elizabeth Lowry

10, Oct, 2018 @11:12 AM

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Miloš Forman: the director who brought the spirit of anti-Soviet rebellion to Hollywood | Peter Bradshaw
The Czech film-maker forged a brilliant career after overcoming the obstacles of both postwar communism in his homeland and Hollywood to where he escaped

Peter Bradshaw

14, Apr, 2018 @10:29 AM

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Lettice and Lovage review – Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman shine
Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman play the warring aesthetes to a tee

Susan Sheahan

21, May, 2017 @7:00 AM

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Lettice and Lovage review – Lipman and Kendal join forces for farcical charades
Maureen Lipman’s brisk bureaucrat is a perfect complement to Felicity Kendal’s gutsy exhibitionist in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s heritage satire

Michael Billington

18, May, 2017 @10:28 AM

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