Deborah Warner
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Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged
- Stage
- October 19, 2020, 13:27
A dead man’s voice can travel a long way. In 1988, Samuel Beckett sued a Dutch theatre company for casting women in his existential drama Waiting for (...)

Mel Mercier: ‘When I work in theatre, I often think that it’s like painting’
- Music
- January 28, 2019, 05:00
Capturing the ephemeral and melding disparate musical pieces to create one coherent whole: that was the task which Mel Mercier set himself two years a(...)

Find theatre stressful? Then you could be just what the BBC is looking for
- UK
- September 21, 2017, 21:10
Do you find the theatre stressful? Do you resent having to wait for the interval? Does the 7.30pm curtain interfere with your children’s bathtime? Is (...)

Shakespeare strikes a chord on post-Brexit stage
- UK
- November 18, 2016, 01:00
English reserve is not what it used to be, except perhaps in the London theatre, where the applause tends to be scanter and more short-lived than in (...)

Behind the ramparts: Pat McCabe’s play set in a world of its own
- Stage
- June 16, 2016, 01:00
“To strengthen this town of Cork I have been of late casting up certain earthworks, but that your Lordship may know that I have a care of her Majies (...)

Samuel Beckett’s old school ties
- Stage
- June 28, 2014, 01:00
There are three events that Sean Doran recalls, over the course of a varied international career as an artistic director, when he thought he had fi(...)

Why Tony Award nominations couldn’t save ‘The Testament of Mary’
- Culture
- May 4, 2013, 06:00
Some day, anthropologists from New Guinea will arrive to study what must be the world’s most peculiar cultural institution: the Broadway theatr(...)