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On Oct. 23, Duke Players opened their fall show “The Bacchae,” directed by senior JR Cassidy. This production, like many others of Duke Players, took place in Brody Theater, a theatre that perfectly ...

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex ...

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It’s a manifesto, how can it not be. For her first production as the first female Director of the National Theatre, and first of colour, Indhu Rubasingham throws open the doors of the Olivier with an ...

Bacchae arrives trumpeting fist clenched rebellion, only to implode into hashtag politics. In remoulding crudly Euripides' tragedy into tawdry cabaret, the National Theatre has committed the deadliest ...

In many ways this is the perfect play for the beginning of a new era at the National. The origins of Western theatre are acknowledged in the choice of a Greek classic, played in the Olivier auditorium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clare Perkins as Vida adds to a spirit of defiant carnival - MARC BRENNER What madness possessed Indhu Rubasingham, the new ...

The first production from every new director of the National Theatre is an event – a sign of which way the wind might blow. As Indhu Rubasingham unveiled Bacchae, most of her living predecessors were ...

Exclusive: Rehearsal photos has been revealed for the first-ever debut play to take to the National Theatre’s Olivier stage. Telling the story of the birth of Western drama and celebrating the god of ...

Ivy Pochoda has written some compelling crime novels. Her latest piece of fiction is a departure for her. “Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by ...

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.” By Celia McGee There’s more than one reason the novelist Ivy Pochoda has the ...