The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Young Vic

Quote of the day: “I’m proposing the conclusion that the value of McDonagh’s plays and films is not that they tell us something about Ireland or England or McDonagh himself, but th…

Quote of the day: “The Pillowman comprehensively asserts the autonomy of the writer, arguing that although a storyteller can elicit reactions of pleasure or pity or disgust, he or …

Coronavirus disruption: I was booked in to see Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House, a deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen’s original play, at the Young Vic tonight.

Favourite stage direction: “As the play begins, a three-foot by three-foot mahogany box, suspended by a thick rope from an unseen roof beam, slowly and theatrically swings into vie…