Political theatre

Category: Political theatre

‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others

by The Guardian | Oct 13, 2026 | Acting, Culture, Film, Germany, Keira Knightley, Political theatre, Robert Icke, Stage, The Guardian, The Lives of Others, Theatre, West End | 0 |

As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stallsUnpacking...

‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’: how Iraq war epic Black Watch conquered the world

It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported theatre-goers from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grewWithin six months of its launch in 2006, the National Theatre...