Andrea Levy on heritage

In a recent post, George Hunka argues against the imposition of narrative authority by playwrights who use a traditional form for telling their stories, one which kills off the aud…

Text of the day: “But don’t we have a sense of the overview built into us, isn’t that part of being British?”

The Royal Court is currently riding high in the popularity stakes, as this interview with Dominic Cooke, its artistic director, makes clear.

Quote of the day: “The first time I saw The Seven Acts of Mercy, in the Pio Monte in Naples, I knew I wanted to write a play about it: its generosity, its complications, its aggres…