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Andrew Dickson

Narrative - review

You couldn't accuse Dominic Cooke of playing it safe during his final days at the Royal Court. Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Republic of Happiness; a few weeks back he opened Bruce Norris's boisterous, period-

Meet the new guard running British theatre

You wait ages for a top job in British theatre – and then 11 come along at once. When, back in the autumn of 2010, Michael Grandage decided to quit as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London, few could have guessed that so many others in the

Anjin - review

Sadler's Wells, London There's a shipwreck on an unknown island. Struggling ashore, the crew fall under the spell of a mysterious, godlike ruler who has power of life or death over everything that moves. Given that this new show is directed by the RSC'

Mare Rider - review

Arcola, London Leyla Nazli's first play, 2007's Silver Birch House , attempted to cram a good chunk of 20th-century Turkish history into a realist family drama. Her new work is both more troubling and more mysterious, a brief but ambitious exploration o