The Misandrist

The Misandrist, that is someone who hates men, as misogynists hate women. In this case that is Rachel, though well into the second act, she

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No Pay? No Way!

This play may be about a situation in Italy half a century ago, but the parallels with the UK today are obvious, even before they

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The Book of Will

Director Lotte Wakeham writes in the programme that, according to a 2017 article in The New Yorker, Lauren Gunderson is by far the most performed playwright

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Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx’s short story about the secret love between two Wyoming cowboys has already been made into an Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee and an

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Dismissed

Given the thousands of knife crimes each year in the UK, it is understandable that pupils are banned from carrying knives in school. If they

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The Vortex

Written in the early 1920s this, I believe, was the first of Coward’s plays to tackle serious issues and must have been quite a shock

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Blanket Ban

It is a particular contradiction that the nation of Malta has gay and transgender rights that rank as some of the most progressive in Europe,

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Jules and Jim

Based on the novel that was also the source for Francois Truffaut’s nouvelle vague film, Jules and Jim presents a bohemian trio of poet and

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An Actor’s Alphabet

Part memoir, part collection of opinion pieces (sometimes political, sometimes about ‘the business’) and part advice manual, this book, subtitled “An A to Z of

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An Inspector Calls

J B Priestley (1894–1984) was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, plays and passionate left-wing polemic. He was an influential figure during and

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Guys and Dolls

In the past, director Nicholas Hytner has immersed Bridge Theatre audiences in the glens of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Rome of Julius Caesar and

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