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John Webster

June 2024

  • ‘Beyond delighted’ … Jodie Whittaker appears in The Duchess from October at the Trafalgar theatre.

    Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess

    The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest

March 2024

  • Demonstrating her range … Francesca Mills (centre) with the cast of The Duchess of Malfi.

    The Duchess of Malfi review – revenge tragedy goes hard on the humour

    Toxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw’s Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters’ emotional journeys

March 2021

  • Lydia Wilson as The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida, November 2019.

    Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2021: James Waddell on The Duchess of Malfi

    The runner-up compares the surprisingly visceral experience of watching the Almeida’s 2019 production of Webster’s great revenge tragedy online

May 2019

  • Angus Miller as Ferdinand and Kirsty Stuart as the Duchess in The Duchess (of Malfi).

    The Duchess (of Malfi) review – critique without context

  • Adam Best and Kirsty Stuart in The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess (of Malfi) review – indictment of patriarchal power

March 2018

  • The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi review – so bloody you need a blanket


    The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg’s staging of Webster’s Jacobean tragedy – a brutal tale of female defiance

February 2017

  • Paul Bazely as Francisco, Kate Stanley-Brennan as Vittoria and Garry Cooper as Monticelso in The White Devil by John Webster.

    The White Devil review – passion, revenge and murder at the double

    Annie Ryan’s production does full justice to the sinewy, aphoristic language in Webster’s sinister portrait of corruption

November 2015

  • The Duches of Malfi
Nottingham Playhouse - Production 2015

    The Duchess of Malfi review – a suitable intensity of vision

    Fiona Buffini’s production does justice to John Webster’s play – even if at times the sense of his words is lost

August 2014

  • Kirsty Bushell (Vittoria) and David Sturzaker (Bracciano) in The White Devil at the Swan, Stratford.

    The White Devil review – putting the patriarchy on trial

    Maria Aberg update of the Webster play foregrounds its gender politics but ultimately loses as much as it gains, writes Michael Billington

May 2014

  • Ben Addis as John Webster in The Mysterious Mr Webster

    TV review
    The Mysterious Mr Webster; The Duchess of Malfi: BBC Arts at the Globe – TV review

    Bim Adewunmi: How John Webster bunked off law school to write his great torture, death and revenge play

January 2014

  • Gemma Arterton in The Duchess of Malfi

    Candlelit murder: Gemma Arterton and the duchesses of Malfi – in pictures

  • Gemma Arterton as the Duchess Of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi - review

September 2013

  • The Duchess of Malfi.

    The Duchess of Malfi – review

    Eyestrings’ intelligent production may have a few raw performances, but oozes promise overall, writes Lyn Gardner

March 2012

  • duchess of malfi old vic

    Duchess of Malfi - review

    That comparative rarity these days: a revival delighting in the language and period setting of Webster’s grisly Jacobean masterpiece. And Eve Best gives a compelling performance that measures up to past duchesses such as Helen Mirren, writes Michael Billington

February 2012

  • Eve Best

    Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'

    Eve Best is famous for her role as glamorous Dr O’Hara in Nurse Jackie. But she made her name in Jacobean theatre – and she is back in London for more, writes Kate Kellaway

January 2012

  • The Changeling

    Jacobean tragedy: of love and death

    With new productions of The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi about to open, it seems we can’t get enough of revenge tragedies. Andrew Dickson on a gruesome addiction

July 2010

  • malfi-great-eastern-quay

    The Duchess of Malfi; La traviata

    Punchdrunk and ENO play fast and loose with John Webster, and Angela Gheorgiu is a perfect Violetta, says Kate Kellaway

October 2008

  • White Devil

    Norman meets Old Vic, and conquers all over again

  • White Devil

    The White Devil

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