Alma Mater

Slave Game; Skeleton Crew; Alma Mater – review

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What a combative theatre week it has been. Three broadly political plays, driven more by talk than by physical action, that hit, reproach and argue. With varying effects. Flare ups and stings (there’s plenty of that), Slave Game arrives in London and has set Broadway alight. In the weeks leading up to opening night, its … Read more

“I think she’s more superficial than malicious. She created her own set of truths’

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Lia Williams, 59, is an exceptional actor with a searching intelligence and warmth, whose award-winning performances on stage and screen have a way of staying in the minds. Her 1993 interpretation of a student accusing her professor of harassment, in that of David Mamet Oleanna, was such a role. Now, thirty years later, she is … Read more