tragedy

A hundred die in Blackfriars as floor collapses.

Christmas cheer! It’s a new exhibition of London murder scenes.

See Aeschylus’s trilogy of tragedies performed in the open air.

Desperate Housewives on acid (or Windolene)

Canadian tale of two farmer’s lives interrupted by an over-eager actor.

Six lives’ tragedies, hopes and dreams all played under the watchful guise of the fateful moon.

Laugh-out-loud funny and excruciatingly sad: welcome to the messy world of relationships

The funereal opening scene, marking the Duchess a widow This time last year there were two tragic Duchesses vying for your theatrical pounds. Greenwich Theatre’s production opened this week as part of their second ‘Stage on Screen’ season, reviving classic texts for performance and committing …

Ziggy Stardust as Macbeth played by a woman with incredible bone structure Get Over It’s rapid Hamlet last year was a surprise treat, one of those pot luck shows that won us over. This year, they’re tackling Macbeth, swopping speed for glamrock. The tragic hero …

In dealing with subject matter that is almost unbearable, the ancient form of Greek Tragedy with its terrible inevitability and its observing, commenting Chorus, is just the ticket. Only, Niklas Rådström isn’t dealing with myth or fiction. The murder of two year old James Bulger …