Articles in the Royal Court Category

Brickbats in Cyberspace
By Matt Boothman | 02-12-08

Modern theatre criticism has problems, and those problems are generational in nature. That’s the one overriding conclusion with which I left the Royal Court after Brickbats in Cyberspace, in which…

Now or Later
By Matt Boothman | 18-09-08

Christopher Shinn has so much to say about American politics, Islam, homosexuality, freedom of expression and life in the public eye that his play Now Or Later, at the Royal…

The Ugly One
By Matt Boothman | 29-06-08

The Ugly One is a play about outward appearances, and this production at the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs deliberately pays no attention at all to its own outward appearance. Every…