Read more about the article REVIEW: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,  Apollo Theatre (2013)  <br> Touring venues MAY 2022 Norwich, Dartford and Wycombe
International Touring Cast 2017-18 (Photo: Brinkoff Mogenburg)

REVIEW: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Apollo Theatre (2013)
Touring venues MAY 2022 Norwich, Dartford and Wycombe

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was a hit novel for Mark Haddon with its analysis of the adventures of a 15 year old boy who has a disorder in the autism spectrum, akin to Asperger's. Haddon says the novel is not a manual on autism but a book about otherness and how society at large reacts to what is different.

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Touring venues MAY 2022 Norwich, Dartford and Wycombe
Read more about the article REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre (2018) and screening on NT at home
David Calder as Caesar - Photo: Manuel Harlan

REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre (2018) and screening on NT at home

For the two hours without interval, the groundlings will stand as the crowd being swayed by the political speeches of Brutus (Ben Whishaw) and Mark Antony (David Morrissey) or as the inhabitants of the battle scenes at Philippi.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Elmina’s Kitchen, Cottesloe National Theatre  (2003)
Paterson Joseph as Deli and Emmanuel Idowu as Ashley - Photo: Ivan Kyncl

REVIEW: Elmina’s Kitchen, Cottesloe National Theatre (2003)

Elmina's Kitchen is not just a good play from Kwame Kwei-Armah, it is an important play because it addresses the issues of black youth sub culture and criminality. Named after Elmina's Castle, a slave prison on Africa's Ghanaian coast where African men were held before being shipped to the West Indies or the Americas, Elmina's Kitchen looks at the inheritance of British black youth of the twenty first century.

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