The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs. Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email ... ....
Noël Coward theatre, London. Deploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker’s characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required ... What has happened here? ....
The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker’s novel by Kip Williams. Here’s a bite-sized look at the critics’ verdicts ... Except it’s not deliciously wicked in adapter-director Kip Williams’ stage reinvention ... ....