Henry VI, Parts I, II and III Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The Tempest Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The story so far of the RSC's Complete Works marathon has been largely that of performances, some wonderfully rich and strange, coming in from abroad. Unable to spend an entire summer camped out in Stratford, I have still to catch up with some ...

I spend a good deal of time at the video-rental store these days: part of the prep any theatre critic has to do to keep pace with the medium's increasing reliance on movies. But, even as a former cinephile and film critic, I share the anxiety of many dramatists that theatre's current craven dependence on well-known movie titles ...