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Is Daniel Day-Lewis right to say theatre is elitist?

Letters: Hannah Essex and Robert Parkhill have opposing reactions to Daniel Day-Lewis’s claim that theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025

Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre

The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

Roots/Look Back in Anger at the Almeida review: the ferocious roar of angry young men and women resonate down the decades

It is a particularly ripe moment to bring back two plays about the anger of younger generations with two plays that couldn’t be more different

Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2024