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December 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

A Christmas Carol (Susan Elkin reviews)

A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre, London (the show will also be performed on 18 December). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★...

December 3, 2017 Susan Elkin

Making Shakespeare work

The world’s largest Shakespeare Festival ends this week after 292 performance nights in theatres all over the country. I refer, of course,...

November 26, 2017 Susan Elkin

No monkeying around

I have followed the success of Fourth Monkey Training Company, which launched in 2010, almost since before it was a twinkle in...

November 19, 2017 Susan Elkin

Actors and Performers Yearbook 2018

It’s always a pleasure when the annual Actors and Performers Yearbook arrives from Bloomsbury although I do wish they’d put some possessive...

October 22, 2017 Susan Elkin

Over recruitment?

I’m often invited to drama schools – to see shows, meet students, admire premises, chat to staff or whatever. I’ve been to...

October 15, 2017 Susan Elkin

Should we teach theatre etiquette?

We all want to see lots of young people in theatres. And having got them there of course, in an ideal world,...

September 17, 2017 Susan Elkin

You can’t teach what you don’t do

In his 1903 play Man and Superman  Bernard Shaw famously observes that “He, who can, does. He, who cannot, teaches”. And it...