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Guards at the Taj

Bush Theatre, London (****)

© Marc Brenner, Darren Kuppan (Babur) and Danny Ashok (Humayun) - the two guards, on guard...

© Marc Brenner, Darren Kuppan (Babur) and Danny Ashok (Humayun) – the two guards, on guard…

Revamped to the tune of £4.3million by those troubadours of theatre architecture, Haworth Tompkins (the Young Vic, the Royal Court, the Donmar and the Almeida are just some of their recent judicious face-lifting credits), the Bush Theatre kicks off its new life with a design befitting its new enlarged status. Continue reading

The Maids

Trafalgar Studios, London (****)

© Marc Brenner, Laura Carmichael , Uzo Aduba

© Marc Brenner, Laura Carmichael , Uzo Aduba

With The Maids, Jean Genet set his seal as one of the most iconic playwrights of the 20th century. With its hallucinatory text and gender-swopping transformations, The Maids also became a forerunner of the extraordinary phenomenon of `drag’, so influential culturally over the past half century. Continue reading