Glowing with ideas: Simone Spagnolo’s Even you, lights, cannot hear me
On a dark, empty landscape, strewn with white rocks, a two headed creature (baritone James Schouten and mezzo Kate Symonds-Joy, back to back on a rotating rock) sits at a…
Uncle Vanya, Chekhov, Almeida Theatre N1
Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is best summarised as an update – and an Anglicisation. Played in contemporary clothes, with sprinkled swearwords (so often touted as modern…