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Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican: 'Stephen Rea is oddly workmanlike'

3/5 Among a slew of Krapp’s, Stephen Rea’s is finely calibrated but lacks pathos

Evening Standard

Edinburgh festival theatre 2024: The Fifth Step; The Outrun; I Wish You Well; Gwyneth Goes Skiing – review

Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder compel in David Ireland’s crackling new AA drama

The Guardian - UK

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets

The Guardian - UK

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The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

Vicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to sobriety

The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece

There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality

The Guardian - UK

Leading lights of UK stage call for Israeli release of Palestinian theatre group

Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre

The Guardian - UK

Royal Court theatre launches digital archive of every play performed there

London venue’s online collection of performances dating back to 1956 will be free to use for writers, directors and the public

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Royal Court appoints New Diorama’s David Byrne as its artistic director

Byrne will succeed Vicky Featherstone, who leaves the Sloane Square venue after more than a decade, in 2024

Evening Standard

Playwright David Byrne appointed as Royal Court’s new artistic director

Writer will take over from Vicky Featherstone in early 2024

The Independent UK

It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned

Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture

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