365 from the National Theatre of Scotland follows a series of teenagers emerging from care, and taking their first steps towards independence in ‘practice flats’. David Harrower’s drama explores the instabilities…

The Factory’s Hamlet is one of the more celebrated fixtures of London’s theatrical underground. Every Sunday, a company of actors pitch up at a different location, each with a selection of…

Who says naturalism is the surest path to emotional truth? …Sisters, Chris Goode’s “live rewiring” of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Gate Theatre, delivers 85 minutes of poignant and emotionally…

I left the Soho Theatre after watching Philip Ridley’s new play with a sense of confusion. Prior to this, I had not seen or read any of his work, so…

Understanding the ‘subtext’ of a play is to grapple with the invisible language inovked in metaphor, understatement and silence; that which occupies the space between the words and interchanges of…

(John Baker is a Yorkshire-based writer, author of a long list of crime and fiction novels, the most recent of which is Winged With Death. In a recent trip to…

Shakespeare Searched

Shakespeare Searched is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. We cluster search results by topic, work, and character to make…

I was recently going back over some texts on Brecht’s model of Epic theatre and was also reading Howard Barker’s Arguments for a Theatre and in these two passages the similarities…

The play takes place in the hallway of an opulent apartment. Doors lead off from either side, to a bathroom, bedrooms, kitchen and the front door at the far end.…

Highly acclaimed American playwright David Mamet is a blogger over on Ariana Huffington’s empire of the left. When I was first perusing the ‘Huffington Post’ (Ariana Huffington, one of few…