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John Proctor is the Villain at the Royal Court Theatre review: terrifically provocative

4/5 This riposte to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible deftly examines the way women and girls are manipulated and gaslit

Evening Standard

‘It shook the plaster off the ceiling’: Self Esteem and David Hare on reviving rock romp Teeth ’n’ Smiles

It lit up the 1970s with its nihilistic tale of a hippie band imploding in a trail of drugs, booze and violence. What can it tell us about the music business today? Writer David Hare and wild-child rocker Self Esteem plug in

The Guardian - UK

The S***heads, review – Violent Stone Age cannibals are brought to life with a sly modern twist

3/5 The Royal Court’s new play is a thought-provoking piece of provocation

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Think panto season is behind you? Oh no it isn’t – some haven’t even opened yet

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year

The Guardian - UK

Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance

The Guardian - UK

Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman set for Royal Court's 70th anniversary season

The Royal Court’s big celebratory year in 2026 features a host of top talent and rising stars

Evening Standard

Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary

Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last Tape

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Sir Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton part of Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Sir Gary will star in and direct Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape.

Evening Standard

‘We spent a week on the cow birth!’ The eye-opening play about animals with sound effects instead of words

Cow | Deer gets ‘between the ears’ of animals, creating mouse noises with polystyrene balls and comparing wild creatures with industrialised ones. So if there’s no dialogue, what did its writer do? Director Katie Mitchell reveals all

The Guardian - UK

Robert Wilson obituary

Performance artist, set designer and director who created haunting, sometimes plotless tableaux to great effect

The Guardian - UK

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40

We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

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The Legend of Rooney’s Ring: Wayne and Coleen get their very own summer panto

How has Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz followed up her TV hits? With a rollicking, sub-Game of Thrones epic based on a Liverpudlian legend. Will the happy couple go and see it?

The Guardian - UK

Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community

The Guardian - UK

4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity

3/5 Sarah Kane’s final work condenses her vision into something untouchable and implacable

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Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026

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Barbara Ferris obituary

Actor who began her career in ‘dolly bird’ roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David Hare

The Independent UK

Jack O’Connell recalls being ‘daunted’ by Michael Caine spitting experience

‘It was totally mind blowing,’ actor said

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Manhunt review – strangely plodding examination of life and death of Raoul Moat

Posthumous courtroom drama from writer-director Robert Icke seems unsure of – or opaque in – its intentions

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Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan never walks alone as Liverpool FC hero Bill Shankly

A cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace’s epic novel about a manager who prized socialism

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Ambika Mod to play porn addict in ‘funny, unsettling and honest’ play at the Royal Court

The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre

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Athol Fugard obituary

South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era

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Athol Fugard caught the impact of apartheid’s full-on attack on humanity

The South African playwright keenly observed the damage of racism – and his courageous works told the world

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More Life review – death-cheating tech drama is incredibly human

A wonderfully precise ensemble cast make this sci-fi vision of resurrection and immortality stab directly at the heart

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Keith Dewhurst obituary

Writer for stage and screen whose work included the TV police series Z-Cars and several plays at the National Theatre and Royal Court

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Curtain up! Meet the new artistic directors with great plans for British theatre

Our theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK, from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic in an era of funding cuts – and share the secrets of their trade

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