Here We Go, Caryl Churchill’s short, 45-minute play at the National, directed by Dominic Cooke, has divided the critics. They either love it or loathe it. I find myself being schizophrenically split between being deeply moved by the play’s reflections on mortality and yet somewhat frustrated by the lack of a more explicit, palpable political … Continue reading
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3 Winters Tena Štivičić, Lyttleton, National Theatre
More often than not it is the image which lingers the most after a performance that opens up my subsequent points of reflection. In the case of Štivičić’s Croatian-based 3 Winters now playing at the National Theatre until 3 February 2015 there are actually two images that made a lasting impression – one in the … Continue reading
Shelagh Delaney and A Taste of Honey – National Theatre
The Easter vacation found me returning to the career of playwright Shelagh Delaney in order to compile an entry for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. When Delaney died in 2011, obituaries predominantly focused on A Taste of Honey (1958) as though her professional life as a writer began and ended with this play. In … Continue reading
