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Royal Court theatre

July 2024

  • ECHO at the Royal Court. Fiona Shaw

    The week in theatre: Echo; Visit From an Unknown Woman; The Baker’s Wife – review

  • Fiona Shaw on stage and Nassim Soleimanpour via video call in a performance of Echo on 13 July.

    Echo review – starry meditation on shapeshifting meaning of home

June 2024

  • Denise Gough (Emma) and Sinéad Cuack (Doctor/ Therapist/Mum) in People, Places And Things by Duncan Macmillan @ Trafalgar Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Bluets; People, Places & Things – review

    Katie Mitchell directs and Ben Whishaw stars, while David Byrne’s new reign at the Royal Court gets off to a cool start. And Denise Gough is unmissable in a blazing revival of Duncan Macmillan’s addiction drama

May 2024

  • Ben Whishaw in glasses, black beanie hat and black shirt looking to camera surrounded by film studio props

    Bluets review – Maggie Nelson’s blue riffs become left-field cine-theatre

  • Relegated … Soroosh Lavasani, Lauren Waine and Ryan Nolan in The Bounds at Live theatre, Newcastle.

    The Bounds review – losers are the focus in this story of 16th-century footballers

  • Hadsan Mohamud in Dugsi Dayz.

    Dugsi Dayz review – young Muslim answer to The Breakfast Club fizzles out

  • David Byrne pictured in 2020

    UK arts need ‘rescue package’ to avoid lost generation, says Royal Court boss

April 2024

  • Raising the past with playfulness … Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Julia Grogan and Norah Lopez Holden in Gunter at the Royal Court Upstairs, London.

    Gunter review – strange tale of murder, witchcraft and football fizzes with fairground energy

    Lydia Higman, Julia Grogan and Rachel Lemon’s play set around a 1604 witch trial is a vital and exciting piece of gig theatre full of improvisational spirit and creative virtuosity

March 2024

  • ‘Everything he said was spot on’ … Michael Feast and Morgan Watkins in Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, directed by Sean Holmes in 2011.

    ‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

  • Edward Bond

    From the Guardian archive
    Edward Bond: ‘Our theatre trivialises or generalises – both are forms of sleaze’

  • Play Of The Month - The Sea<br>Portrait of playwright Edward Bond standing in front of a wall of posters, photographed for Radio Times in connection with the television drama 'Play of the Month - The Sea', 1978. First printed in Radio Times issue 2834, page 11, March 2nd 1978. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio Times/Getty Images)

    Edward Bond obituary

  • Michael Billington

    Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre with his explosive plays

    Michael Billington

  • Edward Bond, blazingly original British playwright, dies aged 89

  • John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism

February 2024

  • Extraordinary … Pip Donaghy and Kate Ashfield in Blasted.

    ‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?

    The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or star in them?
  • Cowbois, a new play by Charlie Josephine on stage at the Royal Court

    Budget crisis imperils Royal Court’s support for new writers

    The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat
  • Julia Masli whose show ran at Park theatre earlier this year.

    No sets, less fuss, a cast of one: can standups save the UK’s cash-strapped theatres?

    For the Royal Court and Park theatres, putting on comedy acts is a moneyspinning way to find new audiences. But are playhouses set to stage fewer plays?

January 2024

  • Laurie Kynaston and George Fouracres in Mates in Chelsea at the Royal Court in November 2023

    Royal Court refuses to rule out job losses as funding cuts bite

    Theatre dedicated to new writing says it is ‘reassessing staff teams’ after sharp rise in production costs
  • Michael Hastings, aged 18, working at his mother's council flat in Brixton, London, in February 1957.

    Seeking Michael Hastings, the missing man of British theatre

    Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back
  • Eileen Walsh and Jack Gleeson in the Druid Theatre Company’s production of Thomas Kilroy's The Seagull (after Chekhov), 2021.

    Thomas Kilroy obituary

    Irish playwright who championed change in religious, social and sexual attitudes while giving voice to fears and anxieties
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