Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa’s new stage revival of The Importance of Being Earnest has secured a UK cinema release date for next year. The star is poised to feature in the Oscar Wilde play at the National Theatre for a solid two months starting from November 20. Following the show’s conclusion in January, it … Read more
It’s twenty five years since Simon McBurney’s devised play first wowed audiences. His Complicité company has always trailed a reputation for inventive and unconventional work and its trailblazing techniques and visions were unique outside of the esoteric world of avant garde dance. But in the intervening period devised theatre has shifted into a new dimension … Read more
National Theatre until June 22 Tickets: 020 3989 5455 The cocktail of Charles Dickens, singer/songwriter PJ Harvey and playwright Ben Power is a teasing prospect. This ambitious attempt to distil the 800-plus pages of the novelist’s last book into a not-quite-a-musical of just under four hours is admirable, even if it isn’t entirely successful. The … Read more
The extraordinary untold story of one of the most important female politicians of the past century is to be told in a radical new play that reveals her crucial role in Westminster’s first-ever ‘power couple’. Whilst husband Nye Bevan’s achievement in forming the NHS has secured its rightful place in history, the role of wife … Read more
