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Something In The Air (15)

Olivier Assayas's film on the aftermath of May 1968 is infantile ultra-leftism

Jingoism and war-worship must be overcome

JOE GLENTON explains his need to respond to a world that is unsustainably divided

On the stage

Nationality: Wog

Monday 16 February 2009

Forty years ago, racist police hounded a homeless Nigerian man to death. SUSAN DARLINGTON takes a closer look at his story, which has been adapted into a powerful new play.

Brush with coal

Wednesday 11 February 2009

ROBERT TANITCH hopes that Lee Hall's tale of people's art gets the audiences it deserves.

Bennett's time has truly come

Wednesday 11 February 2009

ALAN Bennett was the first to admit that Enjoy was not a good title. The critics gave its premiere in 1980 a rough time and audiences stayed away in droves. Now, they are filling the Gielgud Theatre to capacity.

Sex and shocks of youth

Wednesday 11 February 2009

FRANK Wedekind's Spring Awakening is one of the definitive statements on adolescence.

First-rate revival of Orton's best play

Wednesday 11 February 2009

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Sloane (Mathew Horne) has barely walked on stage before his trousers have come off and he's having sex on the floor with his landlady (Imelda Staunton).

Another great work from Fraser

Wednesday 11 February 2009

A BRAD Fraser play is a bit like great sex. It leaves you exhausted yet with a warm and satisfied glow.

Threefold Iraq horrors

Tuesday 10 February 2009

JUDITH Thompson is not a name many will recognise this side of the Atlantic.

That's entertainment

Wednesday 04 February 2009

PAUL FOLEY enjoys a reinvention of the world's first musical performed with panache by two inventive theatre companies.

True nobility of spirit

Wednesday 04 February 2009

ARISTIDES de Sousa Mendes is a name that rarely trips off the tongues of many British people, as he is virtually unknown in this country.

Already beyond its sell-by date

Wednesday 04 February 2009

THE press night for Complicit was delayed for over a week because, according to the Old Vic, a postponement would provide this world premiere with more "development" time.