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The Winner's Curse

I can’t help thinking this might have worked better as a one-act production with Clive Anderson uninterrupted and unencumbered...

Opening on Thursday 21st April in the Wharfeside Theatre is Alan Ayckbourn’s Time of My Life. When you go and see an Ayckbourn play, you know you…

At the conclusion of a year in which Britishness has come so resoundingly to the fore of the national debate – and with a play that at the time of its writing, 1605-6, was engaging with that concept no less urgently – the first impression made by Gregory Doran’s King Lear is how far removed it looks from any traditional sense of "British".

Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 13.20 EDT In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ever commissioned, with 80 performers arranged on a set depicting a football stand. The play would be revived with new casts eight times over the next 20 years, and again at Wilton’s Music Hall in London in 2017. It was televised twice, and entered the school curriculum. The play was Zigger Zagger, and its writer was Peter Terson, who has died aged 89. The story of teenager Harry Philton and his friend Zigger Zagger, who draws Harry into a band of rioting football fans...