Mark Lawson
Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
Honour and courage
Tom Stoppard’s roots and Caryl Churchill’s dystopia
Special affects
The National finds a niche in staging literary adaptations while Shakespeare returns to school in the Donmar’s Teenage Dick
Pulling the trigger
Two dramas of gender tension are re-explored for the era of #metoo by the RSC
Ibsen perplexed
Why modernise old plays when their message is already topical?
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts