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Charlotte Ritchie studies script in first-look rehearsal images for Cloud 9

The Call The Midwife, Ghosts and You actress is appearing in the production of Caryl Churchill’s landmark play.

Evening Standard · Sep 28

‘Frailty and terrible rage’: Linda Bassett on Call the Midwife, her crap-free CV and selling ice creams at Olivier’s Old Vic

Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks back on a career of unconventional choices

The Guardian - UK · May 15

Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links

Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

‘White supremacy was never hidden from me’: Jeremy O Harris on bringing Broadway hit Slave Play to the UK

With the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist talks about the furore over its study of sex and race

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024

Leading lights of UK stage call for Israeli release of Palestinian theatre group

Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Ian Spink obituary

Choreographer, creative director and co-founder of Second Stride, a company that transformed contemporary dance in the 1980s

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023

Owners review – Caryl Churchill’s 1970s housing comedy is still bleakly relevant

Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2023

Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – this Caryl Churchill double bill opens with a masterpiece

These two short plays by the legendary UK playwright span afternoon tea and the apocalypse, past and future, grief and survival

The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2023

untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play review – ferociously funny satire calls out centuries of colonialist dramas

Kimber Lee’s punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023