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Vicky Featherstone

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?

January 2024

  • Stephen Rea in Krapp’s Last Tape, directed by Vicky Featherstone, at Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

    Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece

    There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality

November 2023

  • Joanne Gallagher in Walkies Time for a Black Poodle, part of Knocking on the Wall by Ena Lamont Stewart.

    The week in theatre: Knocking on the Wall; To Have and to Hold; Mates in Chelsea – review

    An exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement drama; and toffs get both barrels in a heavy-handed satire

July 2023

  • Cuckoo, Royal Court Theatre, 2023

    Cuckoo review – springy dialogue lifts slow study of a modern family

    Three generations of women in a Merseyside house banter, bicker and disappear into their smartphones in this nuanced play from Michael Wynne

February 2023

  • Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre

    Vicky Featherstone to step down as artistic director of Royal Court

    Featherstone is latest high-profile figure to leave a major theatre in recent months

October 2022

  • Jews. In Their Own Words. at the Royal Court.

    Jews. In Their Own Words. review – an illuminating, unsettling study of prejudice

    Based on interviews by Jonathan Freedland with 12 British Jews, this verbatim play directed by Vicky Featherstone disturbs and frustrates

August 2022

  • Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre

    On my radar
    On my radar: Vicky Featherstone’s cultural highlights

    The Royal Court’s artistic director raves about a non-binary memoir, admires Gordon Brown’s stand on poverty and salutes Cornelia Parker’s proper mermaid

June 2022

  • Vicky Featherstone: ‘It’s important we acknowledge our mistakes and understand where they came from’

    The Royal Court’s Vicky Featherstone: ‘Britain thinks it isn’t antisemitic because it defeated Hitler’

    A group of queer, black friends, the Jewish experience, how a British Iraqi saw the Gulf War … as she unveils her radical programme, the artistic director talks about learning from the row which saw the theatre accused of antisemitism

April 2022

  • Sarah Milton, writer and star of 4.

    ‘Still a work in progress’: what has #MeToo done for women in theatre?

  • Kate Dickie in the original production of Bad Roads at the Royal Court in 2017.

    Watch the Ukrainian drama Bad Roads at the Royal Court

January 2022

  • Spooky spectacle … The Glow is designed by Merle Hensel.

    The Glow review – myth and history collide in a sci-fi spine-tingler

    Alistair McDowall’s enthralling meditation on time and mortality features a sword-fighting knight and a Victorian medium

April 2021

  • ‘We’re holding up a mirror’ … Tia Bannon, left, and Danielle Vitalis in Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, at the Royal Court in 2019.

    ‘The heat is on’: top theatres act to root out ‘system failure’ of racism

    The Young Vic and Royal Court are rethinking their work practices to unpick centuries of ingrained attitudes – and achieve ‘the miracle of equality’

September 2020

  • Not a snoozepaper … Royal Court Theatre in London is to stage a Living Newspaper project.

    Culture in peril
    Royal Court theatre reopens to present 'living newspaper'

    London venue will host ‘dynamic, political and disruptive’ performances around its building

May 2020

  • Katherine Parkinson and Tom Kanji in Shoe Lady.

    Lockdown culture
    Royal Court invites audiences online to experience its empty space

    London theatre, which closed during a run of Shoe Lady starring Katherine Parkinson, presents installation featuring abandoned set

February 2020

  • Kate O’Flynn in All of It by Alistair McDowall at the Royal Court, London

    All of It review – everywoman takes us from cradle to grave

    Alistair McDowall’s monologue – performed by a mesmerising Kate O’Flynn – channels female experience with warmth and humour

September 2019

  • Rhys Ifans in On Bear Ridge, a National Theatre Wales and Royal Court Theatre co-production.

    On Bear Ridge review – Rhys Ifans braves a storm of sadness

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

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August 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat, Rose McGowan, Steven Berkoff in Harvey and Sexy Lamp.

    Theatre and #MeToo: 'There's a new anger in women's stories'

    The Weinstein scandal has inspired several new plays ranging from sharp satire to crass comedy. As the mogul heads to trial, we gauge theatre’s response

May 2019

  • Caryl Churchill

    'Surprising' new Caryl Churchill triple bill to open at Royal Court

    Churchill’s Glass, Kill and Bluebeard ‘will be a real adventure’, says London theatre, as full year of productions is unveiled

December 2018

  • Alun Armstrong (Edward) in The Cane by Mark Ravenhill @ Royal Court. directed by Vicky Featherstone. (Opening 12-12-18)

    The week in theatre: The Cane; The Tell-Tale Heart; Uncle Vanya – review

    Corporal punishment still hurts in Mark Ravenhill’s haunting new play, Poe is channelled for festive creepiness, and fine performances spruce up Chekhov
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