Out of time

This week in London theatre, Matt Trueman reviews Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors, a transposition of Carlo Goldoni’s commedia del’arte classic Servant to Two Masters to 1960s Brighton. Miriam Gillinson reviews Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Antigone, set in a modern-day Arab state, but is more impressed by Little Bulb Theatre’s youthfully quirky Operation Greenfield. And Timandra Harkness reviews the ENO’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in a sinister schoolyard. Meanwhile, artist Sarah Strang responds to the current Tracey Emin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery.

And in books, Angus Kennedy reviews David Smith’s The Age of Instability, and argues economists have learned the wrong lessons from their failure to foresee the financial crisis - leading to the wrong prescriptions for action (or a lack of it) in the present.

Next week on CW, David Bowden on VS Naipaul in conversation at Intelligence Squared (London on Tuesday 31 May).

27 May 2011