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Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist

Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of Swedish royal court and left legacy of books and letters

The Guardian - UK

Dance of Death review – spark and mischief as humorously horrible couple wish each other dead

Richard Eyre’s adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg’s original savagery

The Guardian - UK

Creditors at Orange Tree Theatre: 'the production just lies there, inert, on the stage'

2/5 Despite an excellent cast including Charles Dance, this Strindberg psychodrama fails to spark

Evening Standard

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Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair

There are some tremendous works in this first UK show focused solely on the Norwegian artist’s vast output of portraits – but the omissions are glaring

The Guardian - UK

Edvard Munch Portraits review – smug, creepy and weird, but where’s the drama?

The Scream artist’s friends, family and physicians populate this patchily assembled collection that suggests little of a boisterous, bohemian life

The Guardian - UK

Julie review – Rebecca Frecknall’s sensational take on Strindberg

The British director of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire makes a gripping debut with the acclaimed Dutch company

The Guardian - UK

Why are we obsessed with renovation? Amanda Lohrey explores the promise and limits of transforming our environment

The cover of The Conversion is an image of two yellow-tailed black cockatoos ascending against a pale sky, their horizontal outstretched wings crossed by the vertical lines that run from their beaks to their tail feathers.

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The Dance of Death review – gender-swapping adaptation neuters Strindberg

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s version of this 1900 play loses the high stakes of the influential original

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