Theatre

The fantastically monickered Cush Jumbo is a girl with twin passions. They’re passions she’s had from when she were a nipper, and those passions are Josephine Baker and performing on stage. In Josephine and I she combines them to dazzling effect. The scene is a 1920’s St Louis nightclub and we’re si

Shakespeare used a neat trick in The Merry Wives of Windsor: he took a well-loved character from a couple of his history plays, dumped him in more prosperous surroundings and waited to see what would happen. Falstaff (Richard Kettles) getting chucked in the Thames in a laundry basket happened. And l

I’ve always been obsessed with the porter in Macbeth. What an oddity he is, stumbling, exploding, ambling, running at full pelt onto the stage – depending on which production you’re seeing – and rambling on about equivocators and the primrose way. He either sets the tone of a production like no othe