See how modern science may disprove the widely-accepted story of how Nero poisoned his step brother Brittanicus to eliminate a potential adversary. Take a look at the life of Nero and find out what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even Timberlake Wertenbaker can’t quite ignite Racine’s tyrannical hero; Harry Hill’s New Labour musical is a gag-filled joy; and the spirits move for Mark Ravenhill When Jean Racine wrote Britannicus ...

Timberlake Wertenbaker’s take on Racine’s version of ancient Rome is replete with power-crazed emperors, deadly poison and juicy family politics Rome might have teemed with power-crazed emperors but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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