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From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022

Writer Vinay Patel on sending Chekhov into space: “I feel I’ve earned taking a swing”

Vinay Patel was seven years old when he first attempted to put an epic science-fiction story on stage. Sadly for the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, he spent so much time putting up the elaborate tinfoil set during the school assembly that his allotted time ran out and he was unceremoniously…

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2022

The theatre tickets to book in London in autumn 2022 - snap them up now!

From a non-binary Joan of Arc to David Tennant as a Nazi and Chekhov in space, it’s one hell of a season on London’s stages

Evening Standard · Aug 23, 2022

The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2022

The Seagull, Harold Pinter Theatre: Game of Thrones star’s West End debut doesn’t half drag-on

Indira Varma is excellent, but this self-referential rewrite of Chekhov’s 1895 play feels slow and self-indulgent

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London review: Emilia Clarke is charismatic in her West End debut

Game of Thrones star is far from the only reason to grab a ticket

Evening Standard · Jul 8, 2022

The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2022

Emilia Clarke: ‘The best place in the world is backstage at a theatre’

The Game of Thrones star on her self-doubt as the hit show took off, her decision to write about her brain aneurysms and showing her love through baking

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

Brave start for Her Productions with Uncle Vanya

IN a city already swimming in theatre companies and with limited audience numbers, the question might reasonably be asked: does Newcastle need another one?

Newcastle Herald · May 20, 2022

‘My experience was not #MeToo, it was #HerToo’: Eryn Jean Norvill on her life-changing return to the stage

Three years after being an unwilling protagonist in a media circus, the actor reflects on her career-defining turn in Dorian Gray – and what comes next

The Guardian - AU · May 6, 2022