The great vernacular revolution of the 1960s turned theatrical dialogue from a prancing pony into a workhorse. With realism ascendant, serious drama, and eventually comedy, demanded a perfect ...

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Documentary reveals how the affordances of VR allow filmmakers to tell novel kinds of stories by using space and setting as a living character. Alongside the rise of high-quality 360 cameras, the past ...

The term “staginess” is usually meant as an insult but there’s a wonderful staginess to Tom Stoppard’s play of ideas The Real Thing. It’s a twisty, unabashedly academic drawing room drama in which ...

There’s no doubt that Tom Stoppard’s 1982 comedy about truth and lies, art and reality, is a feat of illusion. The beginning scene, where Max discovers his wife Charlotte has been unfaithful is ...

‘There are no commitments, only bargains.’ Annie is an actress, Henry is a playwright, and fiction is the backdrop to life. Hardly a recipe for a faithful marriage, especially when it started as an ...