This unfashionable theatrical form has recently had another memorable staging, in Lucy Bailey's Comus at the Globe.

This is down to a particular combination of theatrical form and economics -in other words, the arithmetic of multiple role-play

I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression. Most recently, she has been obsessing over Madonna, specifically her testy, Erotica-era interviews.

In the end the logistics proved insurmountable, but the concept demonstrates Jeyasingh's refusal to be bounded by conventional notions of theatrical form and space.

Fusing different dance and theatrical forms, this evocative, wordless, one-hour piece is shot through with black humour and lyricism.