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The week in theatre: Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile; Education, Education, Education; Bronx Gothic – review

Published: 9 Jun 2019
4 out of 5 stars.

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile review – last orders for Andrea Dunbar
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 3 Jun 2019

Andrea Dunbar's life story to be staged in Bradford pub

New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Published: 10 Dec 2018

Rita, Sue and #MeToo: 'There'd be outrage if it was written today'

Was the Royal Court right to put on Rita, Sue and Bob Too? We asked three playwrights to look afresh at Andrea Dunbar’s story of two girls preyed on by an older man

Published: 17 Jan 2018
4 out of 5 stars.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too review – Dunbar's comedy bleaker than ever in #MeToo era
4 out of 5 stars.

Seeming less uproarious but more political and perceptive than when it first appeared in 1982, Andrea Dunbar’s portrait of Thatcher’s Britain still chills

Published: 11 Jan 2018

David Hare: my ideal theatre

During David Hare’s 50 years in theatre its fortunes have changed beyond recognition. In the face of cultural cuts and crises, he sets out his vision for a Playhouse for today

Published: 30 Dec 2017
Royal Court reverses decision to cancel Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Accusations of censorship prompt the theatre to go back on its cancellation and invite the production to return for its run

Published: 15 Dec 2017
Plays like Rita, Sue and Bob Too must be part of the post-Weinstein debate

Gaby Hinsliff

The Royal Court had its reasons for cancelling a touring production of the drama – but we don’t ban Othello for its racist overtones, we update it, writes Hlcarpenter.com columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Published: 15 Dec 2017

Published: 15 Dec 2017
Cancellation of Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a betrayal of the Royal Court’s history

Letters: Audiences can tell the difference between provocation and exploitation, writes Justin Sherin, while Patrick Kennedy suggests a braver theatre would have gone ahead with the production

Published: 14 Dec 2017

Published: 14 Dec 2017

Culture webchats Lesley Sharp webchat – your questions answered on football, female roles and lipsyncing with David Tennant

Currently starring in Simon Stephens’ version of The Seagull, Lesley Sharp talked about creating characters with Mike Leigh, teaming up with Suranne Jones, writing her first novel – and the joy of animated caterpillars

Published: 23 Oct 2017

Rita, Sue and Bob today: Andrea Dunbar's truths still haunt us

Dunbar’s bleakly funny tale of a menage a trois captured 80s austerity. What can her defiant heroines tell audiences today?

Published: 14 Sep 2017
Barney Norris: Theatre is still catching up with Max Stafford-Clark

As Stafford-Clark tours Rita, Sue and Bob Too with his company Out of Joint, his one-time assistant celebrates a career spent speaking up for the nation – and nurturing talents such as Andrea Dunbar and Caryl Churchill

Published: 11 Sep 2017

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe review – mischief amid bleakness

Troubled playwright Andrea Dunbar is brought to life in an affectionate, unsentimental debut novel

Published: 18 Aug 2017

How we made How we made Rita, Sue and Bob Too

George Costigan: ‘I watched the premiere with my wife on one side of me – and my mother on the other’

Published: 26 Jun 2017

Nick Fraser: ‘Documentaries transform reality, and are transformed by it’

The editor of the BBC’s Storyville on the richness of today’s documentary film-making

Published: 27 Mar 2016
The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Hlcarpenter.com and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others

Published: 24 Mar 2016

'It arrives in an envelope and begs to be staged': the thrill of an unsolicited script

More writers are under commission and on development schemes than ever before but the Royal Court receives 3,000 scripts out of the blue each year. Three of its shows this autumn were plucked from the slush pile

Published: 29 Oct 2015

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