The story begins with a storm. A dingy motel room, and a door that swings open to reveal a man. The opening tableau of Katori’s Hall’s breakthrough play The Mountaintop is a striking theatrical image – reminiscent of Willy Loman’s entrance in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. MLK is...
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“By destroying Ireland’s people, they destroy Ireland,” wrote John Hume about the Provisional IRA in 1989, just as he was about to begin secret peace talks with Gerry Adams. After I finished the new nine-part FX drama series Say Nothing on Disney +, those words struck me in a new...
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A barren stage, soaked in cold light. Two drunken old men, one paralysed on the wooden floor, the other picking off the floorboards of Rob Howell’s classical set. As one these floorboards are picked off, a warm gleam emanates from below. The old man reaches down to this glow and...
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