HISTORICAL FACTS: Joe orton - The Untold Story

Sheila Ballantine obituary

Actor with a long career that included Joe Orton’s Loot, an Alan Ayckbourn trilogy and seasons at the Old Vic and the National

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10

Peter Gill obituary

Acclaimed playwright and director whose reputation was forged at the Royal Court theatre in London

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4

Matriarchal dystopias: Joe Orton got there before the Two Ronnies

Brief letters: Up Against It and The Worm That Turned | War-readiness v human survival | White liberal response | A northern insult

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22

Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens to make stage debut at London’s Young Vic

The 33-year-old will star in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane.

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2025

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

Drama on 3 may have lost its place but there’s no need for theatrics, it’s just the reality of change in an era of new formats

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2025

The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner review – a surreal journey

The fantastical and the familiar merge in this energetic inquiry into class politics and cultural capital

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2023

Malcolm Mowbray obituary

Film-maker who directed the 1984 classic A Private Function, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2023

Critics lament cuts to BBC radio drama – seedbed of UK talent

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

Elspeth Weir obituary

Other lives: Painter and art therapist who shared her adventurous spirit and joy in life with others

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022