Topic: Samuel West

Caryl Churchill's prickly, rewarding play about a father, his son and the son's several cloned copies was premiered at the Royal Court eight years ago, starring Michael Gambon and Daniel Craig. Here, in a fine revival of a production previously ...

Enron dazzles as a corporate Macbeth

Two years ago Rupert Goold, the finest director of his generation, hit the big time with an exhilarating Chichester production of Macbeth. He returns to the south coast with the highbrow hit of the year, the collapse of US energy giant Enron ...

Recycled Waste has acting at its very finest

Samuel West's definitive production of this great Edwardian play by Granville Barker makes crystal clear the ease with which politicians, adulterous sex and forced resignation, the threat of scandal and the art of hypocrisy can all be linked together in a ...

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

In medieval England, villagers would stage elaborate amateur adaptations of biblical stories; each episode would be assigned to the appropriate guild (Noah and his ark would be handled by the carpenters, for example). These popular epics came to be known as Corpus ...

Hollywood star joins list of Standard presenters

Christian Slater, Sheila Hancock, Samuel West and Olivia Williams complete the list of presenters for tomorrow's Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In a shortlist widely divergent in scale, the West End shows Fiddler On The Roof and Hairspray will contend for victory ...