61 stories by "Demetrios Matheou"
We know that David Mamet doesn't beat about the bush; he tackles sensitive issues and the least attractive aspects of human nature head on, while his characters use language as weapons again…
Every May the townspeople of Monroeville, Alabama, the home of Harper Lee, perform Christopher Sergel's theatrical adaptation of Lee's acclaimed, much beloved novel, on the grounds of the co…
North London has a splendid new theatre, The Park, whose £2.5 million existence " without a penny of government subsidy " is something of a miracle given our cash-strapped times. Th…
Throughout Harold Pinter's The Hothouse, the characters of an ill-defined institution split hairs over the service it provides. Is it a rest home, a nursing home, a sanatorium? They may be k…
This production of Old Times is a big deal. It's the first of Harold Pinter's plays to be performed in the theatre renamed after him; it marks the reunion of director Ian Rickson and Kristin…
We never glimpse the source of the old money in Sarah's Wooley's new play, for it's his funeral that opens proceedings. We will get no sense of the man, or the extent of his wealth, or the w…
Henry V is a play with so many layers, and such ambivalence, that it can suit a multitude of purposes. When Laurence Olivier made his film version in 1944, it was as a propagandist rallying …
The Comedy of Errors may not be one of Shakespeare's most notable plays, yet this production embodied the essence of the Globe to Globe season. While the play was lent new kinds of hilarity …
Life was altogether richer when Dennis Potter was around to provoke and worry us, to make us look queasily at the corrupt, hypocritical or despairing aspects of our lives, ever entertainingl…
Little more than a year since The King's Speech hit pay dirt at the Oscars, David Seidler's tale of a prince stuttering between duty and impediment takes to the stage. Rather than a speedy a…
