AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮✮ Mark Hayhurst's Taken At Midnight Theatre Royal Haymarket | London directed by Jonathan Church “There’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it,” remarks Irwin from Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. Transferring from Chichester to the Haymarket on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Taken At Midnight is a capable refutation of the idea. This is a quiet and dignified commemoration of an ineffable event made more and more startling by

✮/✮✮✮✮ August Strindberg's Miss Julie Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy Chichester Festival Theatre | Chichester directed by Jamie Glover A summer short of a half-century cornerstone celebration, here again is Kenneth Tynan’s paring of two modern classic one-act plays which opened at Chichester Festival Theatre back in 1965. Peter Shaffer, the playwright at the heart of this year’s festival, wrote Black Comedy in accordance with Tynan’s wishes for a companion piece to August Strin