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https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/brutal-and-brilliant-portrait-of-bette-davis-and-joan-crawford/"> Brutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. We first meet the future prime minister at a nursery school in Paisley where she orders the teachers to call her Elizabeth and not to use her first name, Mary. This establishes her combative, self-righteous</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/brutal-and-brilliant-portrait-of-bette-davis-and-joan-crawford/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=1125,750 1125w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bette-and-Joan-photo-credit-to-Simon-Annand-3.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--one-up"> <article id="article-533303" class="article article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A miracle at the RSC: genuinely funny Shakespeare">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-miracle-at-the-rsc-genuinely-funny-shakespeare/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/theatre.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/richard-bratby/"> Richard Bratby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-miracle-at-the-rsc-genuinely-funny-shakespeare/"> A miracle at the RSC: genuinely funny Shakespeare </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Most subsidised theatres hanker for political relevance. Even so, when the Royal Shakespeare Company planned its new production of Twelfth Night, they can hardly have expected that by Christmas 2024 we’d have Malvolio as prime minister. The curious thing is</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">12 Dec 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-530160" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Elton John’s The Devil Wears Prada is sumptuous but unmemorable">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sumptuous-but-musically-unmemorable-elton-johns-the-devil-wears-prada-musical-reviewed/"> Elton John’s The Devil Wears Prada is sumptuous but unmemorable </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Devil Wears Prada is a fairy tale about an aspiring female novelist, Andy, who receives a job offer from Runway, the nastiest and most influential fashion magazine in America. Miranda, the editor, is a Botoxed uber-bitch who doesn’t really want to hire Andy, but does anyway. And Andy doesn’t really want to work in</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sumptuous-but-musically-unmemorable-elton-johns-the-devil-wears-prada-musical-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=293px&crop=0,0,440px,293px" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=681px&crop=0,0,1022px,681px 1022w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=213px&crop=0,0,320px,213px 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=250px&crop=0,0,375px,250px 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=333px&crop=0,0,500px,333px 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=427px&crop=0,0,640px,427px 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=533px&crop=0,0,800px,533px 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/THeatre.png?h=653px&crop=0,0,980px,653px 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">5 Dec 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-529389" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="This Muslim playwright believes Yorkshire is headed for civil war">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-muslim-playwright-believes-yorkshire-is-headed-for-civil-war/"> This Muslim playwright believes Yorkshire is headed for civil war </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Expendable, at the Royal Court, is an urgent bulletin from the front line of the grooming gang scandal in the north of England. The setting is a kitchen in Yorkshire where Zara is trying to keep her family together after her son, Raheel, was outed as a rape suspect by a national newspaper. White thugs</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-muslim-playwright-believes-yorkshire-is-headed-for-civil-war/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/expendableroyalcourttheatrereview.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">28 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-528008" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Wonderful comedy of manners: Kiln Theatre’s The Purists reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wonderful-comedy-of-manners-kiln-theatres-the-purists-reviewed/"> Wonderful comedy of manners: Kiln Theatre’s The Purists reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">A slice of the ghetto arrives at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn. The Purists is set on the stoop of a crumbling block in Queens, New York, and the show declares its urban credentials as a boombox slams out a hip-hop rhythm and Mr Bugz, a DJ, enters, mike in hand. He urges the audience</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wonderful-comedy-of-manners-kiln-theatres-the-purists-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jasper-Britton-Gerry-Brinsler-Richard-Pepple-Mr.Bugz-Sule-Rimi-Lamont-Born-Cipher-credit-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">20 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-526883" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Heart-warming but safe biographical drama: Going for Gold, at Park90, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heart-warming-but-safe-biographical-drama-going-for-gold-at-park90-reviewed/"> Heart-warming but safe biographical drama: Going for Gold, at Park90, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Going for Gold is a biographical drama about a forgotten star of the 1970s. Frankie Lucas was a middleweight boxing champion, born on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, who won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1972. Although he lived in London he wasn’t picked for the England team and instead he</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heart-warming-but-safe-biographical-drama-going-for-gold-at-park90-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Theatre.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">13 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-525639" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A flop: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at Ambassadors Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-flop-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-at-ambassadors-theatre-reviewed/"> A flop: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at Ambassadors Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button carries a strap-line, ‘an unordinary musical’. Perhaps the word ‘extraordinary’ is simply too banal to capture the outstanding qualities of this unique show. The year is 1918 and a miraculous birth occurs in a remote Cornish fishing village. The newborn is not a baby but an adult pensioner, Benjamin,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-flop-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-at-ambassadors-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-John-Dagleish-Benjamin-Button.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-1.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">5 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-524091" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A riveting show crammed with the kind of risky gags rarely heard on stage these days">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-riveting-show-crammed-with-the-kind-of-risky-gags-rarely-heard-on-stage-these-days/"> A riveting show crammed with the kind of risky gags rarely heard on stage these days </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">How To Survive Your Mother is a play based on a memoir by political dramatist Jonathan Maitland. He portrays himself in the show, and he muses on the wisdom of turning his manipulative, devious, sex-mad mother into a dramatic heroine. In the end, he’s swayed by ‘Edinburgh derangement syndrome’ as he calls it. ‘You’re diagnosed</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-riveting-show-crammed-with-the-kind-of-risky-gags-rarely-heard-on-stage-these-days/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=1022,681 1022w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/L-R-Howard-Webb-John-Wark-Emma-Davies-Peter-Clements-in-How-To-Survive-Your-Mother-Charles-Flint-Photography-1.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">30 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-522417" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Is Coogan’s Dr Strangelove as good as Sellers’s? Of course not">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-coogans-dr-strangelove-as-good-as-sellarss-of-course-not/"> Is Coogan’s Dr Strangelove as good as Sellers’s? Of course not </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Stanley Kubrick’s surreal movie Dr Strangelove is a response to the fear of nuclear annihilation which obsessed every citizen in the western world from the end of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The play’s co-adaptors, Sean Foley and Armando Iannucci, are old enough to recall</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-coogans-dr-strangelove-as-good-as-sellarss-of-course-not/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dr.Strangelove-Steve-Coogan-President-Muffley-Giles-Terera-General-Turgidson-plus-company-Photo-by-Manuel-Harlan.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">23 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-521109" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Revenge tragedy for kids: The Duchess [of Malfi], at Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/revenge-tragedy-for-kids-the-duchess-of-malfi-at-trafalgar-theatre-reviewed/"> Revenge tragedy for kids: The Duchess [of Malfi], at Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Duchess [of Malfi] has been partially updated by Zinnie Harris in a puzzling modern-dress production. The set by Tom Piper resembles a concrete bunker in an abandoned apartment block and Ben Ormerod’s lighting throws weird shadows across the playing area, which seems to consist mostly of discarded plywood sheets. It feels like a scout-hut</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/revenge-tragedy-for-kids-the-duchess-of-malfi-at-trafalgar-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre_efca4e.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">16 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-519565" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Almeida’s Look Back in Anger is flawless">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/almeidas-look-back-in-anger-is-flawless/"> Almeida’s Look Back in Anger is flawless </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Strange title, Juno and the Paycock. Sean O’Casey’s family drama is about a hard-pressed Dublin matriarch, Juno, whose husband Jack ‘the paycock’ Boyle refuses to support his family and spends all day drinking with his penniless cronies. The producers have labelled the show an ‘Irish masterpiece’, which raises the bar. Mark Rylance plays Jack as</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/almeidas-look-back-in-anger-is-flawless/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Almeida-Theatre_Look-Back-in-Anger_Ellora-Torchia-Morfydd-Clark-Billy-Howle-and-Iwan-Davies_Credit.-Marc-Brenner.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">9 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-518093" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How is Arnold Wesker’s Roots, which resembles an Archers episode, considered a classic?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-is-arnold-weskers-roots-which-resembles-an-archers-episode-considered-a-classic/"> How is Arnold Wesker’s Roots, which resembles an Archers episode, considered a classic? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Almeida wants to examine the ‘Angry Young Man’ phenomenon of the 1950s but the term ‘man’ seems to create difficulties so the phrase ‘Angry and Young’ is being used instead. It’s strange to encounter a theatre that’s scared of words. The opening play, Roots, by Arnold Wesker, looks at the conflict between town and</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-is-arnold-weskers-roots-which-resembles-an-archers-episode-considered-a-classic/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">2 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-516514" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Faultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/faultless-visuals-shame-about-the-play-the-nationals-coriolanus-reviewed/"> Faultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Weird play, Coriolanus. It’s like a playground fight that spills out into the street and has to be resolved by someone’s mum. The hero is a Roman general whose enemies conspire to banish him so he takes revenge by joining forces with a foreign power and laying siege to Rome. Coriolanus’s mother shows up on</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/faultless-visuals-shame-about-the-play-the-nationals-coriolanus-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Theatre.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">26 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-515257" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The show belongs to Jonathan Slinger and Ben Whishaw: Waiting for Godot reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-show-belongs-to-jonathan-slinger-and-ben-whishaw-waiting-for-godot-reviewed/"> The show belongs to Jonathan Slinger and Ben Whishaw: Waiting for Godot reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Waiting for Godot is a church service for suicidal unbelievers. Those who attend the rite on a regular basis find themselves wondering how boring it will be this time. A bit boring, of course, but there are laughs to be had in James Macdonald’s production. The set resembles a Gazan bombsite with a tree-stump stranded</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-show-belongs-to-jonathan-slinger-and-ben-whishaw-waiting-for-godot-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=846,564 846w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Waiting-for-Godot_Ben-Whishaw-Lucian-Msamati.-Tom-Edden-and-Jonathan-Slinger-_Photo-Marc-Brenner.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">19 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-513684" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A massive, joyous, sensational hit: Why Am I So Single? reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-massive-joyous-sensational-hit-why-am-i-so-single-reviewed/"> A massive, joyous, sensational hit: Why Am I So Single? reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Why Am I So Single? opens with two actors on stage impersonating the play’s writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. You may not recognise the names but you’ve probably heard of their smash-hit, Six, which re-imagined the tragic wives of Henry VIII as glamorous pop divas. This follow-up show is a spoof of vintage musicals</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-massive-joyous-sensational-hit-why-am-i-so-single-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Theatre_7b2c31.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">12 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-512520" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The rise of soapy, dead-safe drama: The Band Back Together reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-soapy-dead-safe-drama-the-band-back-together-reviewed/"> The rise of soapy, dead-safe drama: The Band Back Together reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Band Back Together is a newish play, written and directed by Barney Norris, which succeeds wildly on its own terms. It delivers a low-energy slice of feelgood nostalgia involving three musicians who reunite in their hometown of Salisbury. The action consists of talk and songs, more talk, more songs, some cider-drinking and a surprise</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-soapy-dead-safe-drama-the-band-back-together-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=1022,681 1022w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/THeatre.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">4 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-511275" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Dazzling: Stoppard’s The Real Thing, at the Old Vic, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dazzling-stoppards-the-real-thing-at-the-old-vic-reviewed/"> Dazzling: Stoppard’s The Real Thing, at the Old Vic, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Real Thing at the Old Vic is a puzzling beast. And well worth seeing. Director Max Webster sets the action in a vast sitting room painted electric blue with a white sofa in the centre. A lovely use of empty space. But the preview trailer on the theatre’s website shows the actors seated in</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dazzling-stoppards-the-real-thing-at-the-old-vic-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Karise-Yansen-Debbie-and-James-McArdle-Henry-in-The-Real-Thing-at-The-Old-Vic-credit-Manuel-Harlan.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">29 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-510079" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Artistically embarrassing but a hit: Shifters, at Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/artistically-embarrassing-but-a-hit-shifters-at-duke-of-yorks-theatre-reviewed/"> Artistically embarrassing but a hit: Shifters, at Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Shifters has transferred to the West End from the Bush Theatre. It opens at a granny’s funeral attended by the grief-stricken Dre, aged 32. Dre was raised by his ‘Nana’ as he calls her – rhyming it with ‘spanner’ – and he weeps when he realises that his mother has failed to show up. A</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/artistically-embarrassing-but-a-hit-shifters-at-duke-of-yorks-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/7-Heather-Agyepong-Des-Tosin-Cole-Dre-c-Marc-Brenner_.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">22 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-509113" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The cast mistake screaming for comedy: Cockfosters, at Turbine Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cast-mistake-screaming-for-comedy-cockfosters-at-turbine-theatre-reviewed/"> The cast mistake screaming for comedy: Cockfosters, at Turbine Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Turbine Theatre is a newish venue beneath the railway arches of Grosvenor Bridge in Battersea. The comfy auditorium is furnished with 94 cinema seats and the only snag is the scent of mildew clinging to the plasterwork. Overhead, the rumbling commuter trains create the perfect soundscape for Cockfosters, a zany rom-com set on the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cast-mistake-screaming-for-comedy-cockfosters-at-turbine-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sam-Rees-Baylis-Harry-Bradley-Cockfosters-The-Turbine-Theatre-Photography-Credit-Marshall-Stay.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">15 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-508026" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="This Edinburgh Fringe comedian is headed for stardom">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-edinburgh-fringe-comedian-is-headed-for-stardom/"> This Edinburgh Fringe comedian is headed for stardom </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Dr Phil Hammond is a hilarious and wildly successful comedian whose career is built on the ruins of the NHS. His act has spawned a host of imitators on the stand up-circuit and they share Dr Phil’s confused adoration for the NHS. All of them love the idea of universal healthcare but they dislike the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-edinburgh-fringe-comedian-is-headed-for-stardom/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image3.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">1 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-505737" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Reinforces the caricatures it sets out to diminish: Slave Play, at the Noël Coward Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/reinforces-the-caricatures-it-sets-out-to-diminish-slave-play-at-the-noel-coward-theatre-reviewed/"> Reinforces the caricatures it sets out to diminish: Slave Play, at the Noël Coward Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Slave Play is a series of hoaxes. The producers announced that ‘Black Out’ performances would be reserved for ‘black-identifying’ playgoers but the ticketing system is colour-blind and these so-called ‘segregated’ shows were attended by audiences of all ethnicities. The PR gambit generated lots of free publicity, but these stunts don’t always translate into ticket sales.</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/reinforces-the-caricatures-it-sets-out-to-diminish-slave-play-at-the-noel-coward-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre_aa4541.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">25 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-504448" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Shapeless and facile: The Hot Wing King, at the Dorfman Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shapeless-and-facile-the-hot-wing-king-at-the-dorfman-theatre-reviewed/"> Shapeless and facile: The Hot Wing King, at the Dorfman Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Our subsidised theatres often import shows from the US without asking whether our theatrical tastes align with America’s. The latest arrival, The Hot Wing King, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about unhealthy eating. The production opens in a luxury house in Memphis, occupied, rather strangely, by four gay men who dress gracelessly in cheap, flashy</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shapeless-and-facile-the-hot-wing-king-at-the-dorfman-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olisa-Odele-Isom-Kadiff-Kirwan-Cordell-and-Kairecce-Denton-Everett-EJ-in-The-Hot-Wing-King-at-the-National-Theatre-c-Helen-Murray-102.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">18 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-503030" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Vapid and pretentious: Visit From An Unknown Woman, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/vapid-and-pretentious-visit-from-an-unknown-woman-at-hampstead-theatre-reviewed/"> Vapid and pretentious: Visit From An Unknown Woman, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Visit From An Unknown Woman, adapted by Christopher Hampton from a short story by Stefan Zweig, opens like an episode of Seinfeld. A playboy writer enjoys a fling with a black-clad beauty – but when he kisses her goodbye, he can’t remember her name. It feels like a set-up for a gag, but the script</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/vapid-and-pretentious-visit-from-an-unknown-woman-at-hampstead-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Theatre.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">11 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-501636" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Unmissable – for professors of gender studies: Alma Mater, at the Almeida Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/unmissable-for-professors-of-gender-studies-alma-mater-at-the-almeida-theatre-reviewed/"> Unmissable – for professors of gender studies: Alma Mater, at the Almeida Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Alma Mater is a topical melodrama set on a university campus. The new principal, Jo, (amusingly played by Justine Mitchell) is a radical feminist who recalls the bitter struggles of the 1980s when she strove to put women on an equal footing with men. Her task now is to address the college’s reputation for ‘binge-drinking,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/unmissable-for-professors-of-gender-studies-alma-mater-at-the-almeida-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Almeida-Theatre_Alma-Mater_Justine-Mitchell_Credit.-Ali-Wright-1.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">4 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-499998" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Morally repugnant: Boys From the Blackstuff, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/morally-repugnant-boys-from-the-blackstuff-at-the-garrick-theatre-reviewed/"> Morally repugnant: Boys From the Blackstuff, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Yosser Hughes is regarded as a national treasure. He first appeared in 1982 in Alan Bleasdale’s TV drama, Boys from the Blackstuff, which followed a crew of Liverpool workers who lay tarmac (‘black stuff’) for a living. When their contract expires the lads are left shocked and helpless even though job security is not a</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/morally-repugnant-boys-from-the-blackstuff-at-the-garrick-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=1130,753 1130w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Barry-Sloane-as-Yosser.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">27 Jun 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-498574" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="‘Punishingly dull – but the crowd loved it’: Next to Normal, at Wyndham’s Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/punishingly-dull-but-the-crowd-loved-it-next-to-normal-at-wyndhams-theatre-reviewed/"> ‘Punishingly dull – but the crowd loved it’: Next to Normal, at Wyndham’s Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Constituent is a larky show about violence against female politicians. A strange subject for a comedy. Anna Maxwell Martin plays a vapid but well-meaning MP, Monica, who receives unwelcome attention from a sinister dropout, named Alec (played by James Corden). Alec’s backstory is quite a puzzle. He used to work as an MI6 spymaster</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/punishingly-dull-but-the-crowd-loved-it-next-to-normal-at-wyndhams-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamie-Parker-Jack-Wolfe-and-the-band-in-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-Donmar-Warehouse-photo-by-Marc-Brenner-min.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> 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https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/riveting-and-exhilarating-miss-julie-at-park90-reviewed/"> Riveting and exhilarating: Miss Julie, at Park90, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Some Demon by Laura Waldren is a gem of a play that examines the techniques of manipulation and bullying practised by shrinks on anorexics. The setting is an NHS referral unit where Sam, an 18-year-old philosophy student, arrives with a minor eating disorder. Like every patient, Sam is told that her personality is immersed in</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/riveting-and-exhilarating-miss-julie-at-park90-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Katie-Eldred-cred-Mark-Senior.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">13 Jun 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-495948" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Hard to get to grips with: Marie Curie: The Musical reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hard-to-get-to-grips-with-marie-curie-the-musical-reviewed/"> Hard to get to grips with: Marie Curie: The Musical reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Marie Curie: The Musical is a history lesson combined with a chemistry seminar and it’s aimed at indignant feminists who want to agonise afresh over the wrongs of yesteryear. We meet the young Marie, wearing her signature widow’s frock, as she speeds towards Paris on a train from Poland. The essential materials of this musical</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hard-to-get-to-grips-with-marie-curie-the-musical-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Theatre_113e92.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">6 Jun 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-494374" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Eddie Izzard’s one-man Hamlet deserves top marks">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/eddie-izzards-one-man-hamlet-deserves-top-marks/"> Eddie Izzard’s one-man Hamlet deserves top marks </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Every Hamlet is a failure. It always feels that way because playgoers tend to compare what they’re seeing with a superior version that exists only in their heads. And since disappointment is inevitable, it’s worth celebrating the successful novelties in Eddie Izzard’s solo version. He makes some valuable breakthroughs, especially in the comedic sections. 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