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Steven Berkoff interview - Oedipus set for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011

Steven Berkoff interview - Oedipus set for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011

Anita Dobson stars as Jocasta in Steven Berkoff's Sophocles adaptation

29 Jul 2011

Actor. Playwright. Director. Fringe darling. Big-screen bad guy. Steven Berkoff is all these things and more, a singular talent who has ploughed his own furrow. But for all his unique qualities, the 73-year-old says he is every bit the company man. This…

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

(4 stars)29 Apr 2010

What’s immediately striking about John Byrne’s bold new adaptation of Chekhov’s swansong is how sympathetically it translates to its new setting – the north-east of Scotland on the eve of Mrs Thatcher’s first election victory in 1979 – with very little…

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

15 Apr 2010

It’s commonplace to see productions of Chekhov concentrate on the business of love and loss that so underpins his great dramas. Yet what is neglected, particularly in British productions, is the urgent sense of social change and economic disaster that…

2010 preview: Great expectations

2010 preview: Great expectations

7 Jan 2010

Favourite things are ending, exciting things are beginning and old things are coming back. 2010 is already shaping up to be a thrilling year and here are the 30 good reasons why we can’t wait

Theatre hitlist

Theatre hitlist

3 Sep 2009

Arches Live! The Arches continues to push performance boundaries with a mouth-watering season of shows, many of them by non-traditional theatre-makers. Arches, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 26 Sep. The Cherry Orchard Dundee Rep ensemble turns its…

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

Chekov's swansong in Dundee

20 Aug 2009

The Autumn theatre season kicks off in style with this new version of Chekov’s swansong, adapted by Stuart Paterson for Dundee Rep. The ensemble is joined by the acclaimed visiting Russian director Vladimir Bouchler for the classic tale of an…

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