David Cameron, you won't enjoy this: inside the Windrush scandal musical
On Hostile Ground features a singing former PM – and plenty of savagely witty numbers about wrongful detention and deportation. As it prepares to launch, we go behind the scenes
November 2020
Lockdown culture
15 Heroines: The Labyrinth review – defiant women rise up from the myths
These bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology
June 2020
Culture in peril
RSC 'may be forced into drastic hibernation without urgent help'
Arts body lost 75% of income overnight and is struggling to bring shows back in some form
January 2020
The scandal of the £20bn bailout to slave-owning Brits
In 1833, Britain took out a loan to compensate slave owners – only recently paid off. Juliet Gilkes Romero reveals the shameful history that inspired her play The Whip
June 2018
#WeAreArrested / Day of the Living review – voices from the dungeon and of the disappeared
A Turkish journalist’s jail memoir inspires an audacious drama while the presumed murder of 43 students in Mexico drives an uneven play
January 2015
Upper Cut review – whistle-stop tour of parliament boots Labour back to the 80s
Juliet Gilkes Romero’s fiery drama puts Labour in the dock for failing multicultural Britain, writes Michael Billington
