Andrew Eglinton

Every now and then the theatre world gets its knickers in a twist over acts of alleged immorality or political transgression.

There is an hour after nightfall, and Koltès describes it best, the hour when ‘man and beast are falling savagely one upon another’.

I don’t know of another museum in Europe that rivals the breadth of the Theatre Museum’s collection.

A list of freely available performance videos on the Web.

A valuable glimpse of “the old days” as per the experience of ‘Walter Plinge’, the RADA graduate who began his career in the mid 50’s at the Derby Playhouse.

It’s fascinating when the real world comes into the theatre. But to what degree can you make it come in realistically?

Part 1 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

Part 2 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

The very idea of distilling thousands of years of human evolution into a two hour performance is itself a critique of the writing and presentation of history.

Understanding the ‘subtext’ of a play is to grapple with the tacit language of metaphor, understatement, pause and silence.