Though you leave the theatre in a properly chastened frame of mind, the sheer vitality and wit of the first half creep back, especially of the two women, Imoinda, played by Nadine Marshall and Lady Onola, one of the old king's former mistresses, played by Jo Martin.

ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

New York Live Arts, the arts group led by the choreographer Bill T Jones, has just held a festival called Live Ideas: The World of Oliver Sacks, with theatre, dance and performances dedicated to the neurologist and his exploration of the connection between mind and body.

BBC: Oliver Sacks on science, art and awakening the brain

To my mind the error was to present as journalism something composed to the quite different standards of theatre.

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