Atri Banerjee's production of Jean Racine's Britannicus is no Roman Holiday. With the wind of a new translation from Timberlake Wertenbaker in its sails, the production tries to channel the depth of a ...

Full casting is announced today for Jean Racine's Roman tragedy Britannicus, translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by award-winning director Atri Banerjee, in a thrilling, new ...

It’s a big ask for a weekday in Hammersmith: a radical reworking of Jean Racine’s 17 th century French verse play about Nero’s metamorphosis from Rome’s brat-emperor into its psycho tyrant. At least ...

There's a stuffed wolf on stage, silently snarling its way through the opening scenes of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s biting new update on Jean Racine's 1669 play ‘Britannicus’. It's a reference to the ...

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This assured revival at the Lyric Hammersmith is the mother of all psycho-dramas Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became the Telegraph's lead theatre ...