14 APRIL 2007, page 48

Courting The Computer

Patrick Carne gy The Merchant of Venice Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon B ack in the 1920s someone complained there wasn’t a play on the London stage that didn’t have a......

Shades Of Grey

Harry Joll The Lives of Others 15, nationwide T he setting is East Germany, 1984. A highly appropriate year: the Stasi is positively Orwellian in its observation of its......

Cooling Off

Simon Hoggart L ots of new comedy this week. Mitchell and Webb are a puzzle. They had a successful sketch slot, which followed the first runs of Peep Show . Then they turned up......