AUDITORIUM

✮ David Hare's The Red Barn National Theatre | London directed by Robert Icke Big names mean big excitement. Given the former you long for the latter in David Hare’s stage adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel La Main, presented here as The Red Barn and directed by Robert Icke. How could you not – Hare is a living legend, one of our social champions, and Icke was the director du jour with 1984 and Oresteia. Ears pricked at portentous dialogue, eyes peeled for visual cues and

✮✮✮ 1/2 David Hare's Skylight Wyndham's Theatre | London directed by Stephen Daldry It’s been more than twenty years since David Hare’s Skylight premiered at the National Theatre. Now, in a post-Thatcher world, Stephen Daldry has brought this time capsule of a play back to the London stage. Tom Sergeant is a successful business man, a role originally created by Michael Gambon succeeded here by Bill Nighy in its first West End transfer – alongside him Carey Mulligan masterfull

✮✮✮✮ David Hare's The Judas Kiss Duke of York's Theatre | London directed by Neil Armfield Following its brief run at Hampstead Theatre last autumn, David Hare’s 1998 play The Judas Kiss has now successfully transferred to London’s West End with Rupert Everett repeating his magnificent interpretation of the literary genius Oscar Wilde and the young Freddie Fox as the object of his obsession, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). The Judas Kiss is thankfully not loaded with pseudo Wild