12 JANUARY 2008, page 34

Her Dark Materials

T he Eileen Atkins experience — the word ‘interview’ doesn’t even begin to describe it — starts for me at about 3.30 on a brilliant, sunny afternoon in December. There I am in......

Beguiled By A Master

Andrew Lambirth Hidden Burne-Jones Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14, until 27 January I t’s always a pleasure to visit Lord Leighton’s house and imagine......

Next Stop, Lear

Lloyd Evans Much Ado About Nothing Olivier The Masque of the Red Death Battersea Arts Centre The Winter’s Tale Courtyard Theatre S imon Russell Beale is working through the......