The Vervain Theatre Company specialises in putting on masked productions of ancient drama. We know that masks were a central feature of ancient Greek drama; the main intention of Vervain's ...
Read more: The Bacchae in Masks
Following a well-received run at the Manchester Royal Exchange and then Shakespeare's Globe, poet Simon Armitage’s The Last Days of Troy, his adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, makes a welcome ...
Read more: Pride Before The Fall
Social media is awash with photographs that people have taken of themselves. Everyone is guilty of it; from schoolchildren and pop stars, to Barack Obama and the Pope. Quite often these ...
Read more: The Perfect Selfie
To call Greek tragedies ‘timeless’ is a cliché that shames every reviewer of Greek tragedies; but it’s hard to argue that the clash between order and chaos, good and evil never goes out ...
Read more: The Menace of Maenads
The summer saw the National Theatre’s critically-acclaimed and clever production of Euripides’ Medea directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring the brilliant Helen Mcrory. This autumn Ian ...
Read more: Mourning Does Not Become Electra
