Dzifa Benson

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Dzifa Benson

Dzifa Benson 21 February 2025 7:25pm GMT The thorny question at the heart of Otherland, Chris Bush’s new play at the Almeida, is “who’d be a woman?” The play doesn’t try to offer pat answers to a question of such magnitude. One of its two main protagonists happens to be a transgender woman and, although the audience gains insights into the challenges this entails, gender reassignment isn’t its overarching thrust. What Otherland does offer is a thoughtful and ultimately moving examination of...

2 months ago | msn.com | Dzifa Benson

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2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Dzifa Benson

In the programme notes of this production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, translator Rory Mullarkey writes: “Chekhov has his own specific phrasing too – long propulsive sentences trailing off in ellipses, filled with stark monosyllables, like the clean-tumbling waterfalls of notes in the Chopin Nocturnes he loves so much.

Nov 1, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Dzifa Benson

Siân Phillips in Table Number Seven Credit: Manuel Harlan Terence Rattigan achieved success relatively young, becoming one of the most popular dramatists of the postwar period and, at one stage, he was the highest-paid screenwriter in the world. The tide changed for his career as a playwright when John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and the theatrical cult of the Angry Young Men came along in the late 1950s and 1960s and dealt a cultural broadside to Rattigan’s brand of genteel drama examining...