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5 out of 5 stars.

TV review Normal People review – Sally Rooney's love story is a small-screen triumph
5 out of 5 stars.

This BBC/Hulu adaptation of the hit novel about the on-again, off-again relationship between two Irish teenagers captures the beauty and brutality of first love perfectly

Published: 26 Apr 2020

Lockdown culture All the world's a page: the joy of scripts during theatre's shutdown

As venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage

Published: 19 Mar 2020

Carla Gugino: 'Sexuality is a primal part of who we are but it's been misused'

The star of Jett and Sin City is back on stage in Alice Birch’s raw Anatomy of a Suicide. She talks about the play’s emotional toll, how she unwinds and American puritanism

Published: 12 Feb 2020

2020 culture preview Star debuts and happy returns: theatre, dance and comedy in 2020

Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery

Published: 2 Jan 2020

3 out of 5 stars.

La Maladie de la Mort review – clinical dissection of male gaze
3 out of 5 stars.

Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s stage adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novella is skilfully designed but strangely dulling

Published: 17 Aug 2018
A desire for Duras: Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch on the writer's erotic, existential mystery

Part philosophical meditation, part fantasy, Marguerite Duras’s 1982 novella La Maladie de la Mort comes to the stage in a hi-tech Edinburgh festival show

Published: 1 Aug 2018

hlcarpenter.com picture essay 'How does the internet feel?' Chloe Lamford's astounding stage designs - in pictures

Hacktivists in ball pools, teenagers riding unicorns and a world powered by actors on bikes … Chloe Lamford’s playful sets take audiences by surprise. She explains how she creates them

Published: 12 Jul 2017

4 out of 5 stars.

Mark Kermode's film of the week Lady Macbeth review – with murder in her mind
4 out of 5 stars.

Rising British star Florence Pugh electrifies as a teenage bride stuck in a suffocating marriage in William Oldroyd’s heady feature debut

Published: 30 Apr 2017
5 out of 5 stars.

Peter Bradshaw's film of the week Lady Macbeth review – a brilliantly chilling subversion of a classic
5 out of 5 stars.

Published: 27 Apr 2017
No link to the Bard … but this Lady Macbeth is just as deadly

Published: 22 Apr 2017

Theatre blog Alas, poor Ophelia: the minor characters who deserve the spotlight

Ophelias Zimmer presents Hamlet from the perspective of its tragic heroine. There are plenty of other supporting characters I’d like to know more about

Published: 23 May 2016
3 out of 5 stars.

Ophelias Zimmer review – Katie Mitchell brings Hamlet's real ghost into focus
3 out of 5 stars.

Mitchell, Alice Birch and Chloe Lamford deliver a forensic study of an imprisoned Ophelia, stalked by the Prince of Denmark

Published: 18 May 2016

3 out of 5 stars.

We Want You to Watch review – fantasies of a porn-free world
3 out of 5 stars.

RashDash’s show about the effects of pornography has strong points of view, but doesn’t offer much room for debate

Published: 16 Jun 2015
Would sex be better in a world without pornography?

The National Theatre’s new production We Want You to Watch imagines putting an end to porn and asks us to entertain the idea of what would take its place

Published: 11 Jun 2015

3 out of 5 stars.

Little Light review – Alice Birch's play tests its performers (and our patience)
3 out of 5 stars.

Suspense turns to frustration as this well-acted family mystery keeps the audience guessing, writes Michael Billington

Published: 9 Feb 2015

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