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If given an opportunity to imagine the perfect modern day setting for the money-driven and most controversial of Shakespeare’s plays, no doubt Las Vegas would be one of the first places on people’s minds. Independently well-known for taking its own metaphorical ‘pound of flesh’, the Vegas setting brings this modern…
Playwright Alecky Blythe has an orthodox style when it comes to getting her stage production storylines together. Unlike the traditional form of playwriting – pencil and paper and a vivid imagination – she instead takes her starting point as a real life event, one you’ve probably heard of in the…
The festive season seems to have well and truly arrived, a fact clearly confirmed thanks to the inexhaustible droves of shoppers trawling central London on a mission to find the perfect gifts. As if in ode to this, the Almeida theatre’s annual Christmas theatre production has arrived, in the form…