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'Boring Camp and Squalid Promiscuity’ – The Queer Soho of Absolute Hell

Absolute Hell company scene

An interview with the producer of Connections

Holly - Connections Producer

Essential Reads with... Tonic Theatre

In conversation with… Jonathan Kent and David Hare

Peter Egan, Joshua James and Jonathan Kent in rehearsals for the Young Chekhov trilogy

Treasures from the Archive

Mask from The Oresteia

Simon Callow on Legendary Play Agent, Peggy Ramsay

Simon Callow (left), cover of Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

Model Boxes: Designing Absolute Hell

A photograph of the model box for Absolute Hell

Help us save stage lighting

An image of War Horse

A potted history of improvisation

An image of five actors from Lost Without Words seated on and around a leather sofa

A bluffer’s guide to… Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen at the Grand Café, Ibsen's portrait by Edvard Munch