Director Eve Best exhibits a real understanding of the splintering and loneliness at the heart of the play, along with a comic touch.

Kenneth Branagh exercises his immense talent in Manchester, Lancashire.

Eve Best makes an excellent directorial debut despite taking on one of Shakespeare’s more challenging works.

Two couples hurl invective at each other in Noel Coward’s wonderfully constructed comedy.

Underneath this musical's expensive packaging, there is little to make one's mouth water.

A lavish budget creates some memorable moments in act two of this classic fantastical tale.

Sweet Bird is a strange, oddly structured work, as symptomatic of a warped age as of a warped imagination.

Bold and funny, Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play comes packed with bleak wit, a sense of desolation and some cheap narrative tricks.

Conor McPherson's writing slews boldly from kitchen-sink naturalism to almost surreal nightmarishness.

Simon Russell Beale is in scorching form in Harold Pinter's 1958 black comedy.