Rock’n’Roll review – Tom Stoppard’s blast from the past
Stoppard’s 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late
September 2023
After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre
Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers
July 2021
The week in theatre: Bach & Sons; Out West – review
Simon Russell Beale is Bach to his fingertips in Nina Raine’s intermittently brilliant new play
June 2021
Bach & Sons review – study of the man and his music hits a flat note
Simon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine’s play that never quite gets off the ground
April 2020
On a knife-edge: Tiger Country lays bare the ferocity of life in the NHS
Lockdown culture
Guardian to stream plays about the NHS and Ai Weiwei from Hampstead theatre
October 2018
The week in theatre: Company; Measure for Measure; Stories – review
Stories review – Nina Raine's smart drama about seeking a sperm donor
May 2018
Consent review – bracingly clever courtroom drama
Roger Michell directs the West End transfer of Nina Raine’s smart play about a group of lawyers and their private lives
August 2017
Makers of Poldark and Victoria plan 'darker' Pride and Prejudice
Writer Nina Raine to focus on Jane Austen’s ‘dark intelligence’ for TV series to air 25 years after BBC classic starring Colin Firth
April 2017
From Elle to Game of Thrones, why is culture obsessed with rape?
Fictional depictions of sexual violence are everywhere on film, TV and the stage, but do they take the wrong approach?
Consent review – justice under interrogation
Nina Raine adroitly tackles barristers’ struggles with the truth as the audience becomes the jury in a rape case
Consent review – love and justice on trial in fierce courtroom drama
The audience become judge and jury in Nina Raine’s intelligent play about a rape case full of opposing narratives, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Chaplin
December 2014
Tiger Country review – a remarkable snapshot of the health service
Tiger Country review – surgeons on a knife edge in NHS drama
May 2014
Donkey Heart review – a terrific play lurking inside a flabby one
Nina and Moses Raine interview – 'I'm bossy – he's very sunny'
March 2013
Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic
The artistic director of London's Royal Court theatre, Dominic Cooke, is soon to bow out. Kate Kellaway talks to him and some of the exciting new playwrights whose work he has helped showcase
February 2011
Another view
Another View on Tiger Country
Interview by Laura Barnett
Junior doctor Sabrina Talukdar can't find a single medical inaccuracy in Nina Raine's play about the NHS – except the ultra-callous attitude of medical staff
January 2011
Tiger Country - review
With the NHS facing its biggest revolution in 60 years, now is the time for a play about the realities of hospital life. While Nina Raine follows up her Tribes with a highly effective medical work play, she doesn't dwell on the political context, writes Michael Billington
