It all comes together in the horrific, absurd second half where the indomitable Duchess is psychologically ... Oedipus – in the West End. Trafalgar Theatre, to December 20, buy tickets here ...

Shortening the title to The Duchess seems to indicate a more generic lead character, less anchored to a time or place. But the production wants it both ways. The action is taking place not far from ...

The Duchess [of Malfi] marks Doctor Who star ... who has re-written and directed the production for the Trafalgar Theatre. In the opening scene we’re introduced to Whittaker as the titular ...

A proud, sexually confident woman is destroyed by controlling men in John Webster’s horrifying Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi ... at London’s Trafalgar Theatre. This lumbering approach ...

The differences between John Webster’s 17th-century revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi and Zinnie Harris’ sparkily rewritten ... Instead of the candles and velvet of the Blackfriars Theatre, ...

Heading a sharply uneven cast, Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker gives the haughty Duchess an air of alienating privilege and towering pride that blinds her to danger but also allows her to withstan ...

Whittaker exudes battered nobility as she declares Webster’s famous line: “I am the Duchess of Malfi still.” Later, in an extrapolation of the scene where Antonio hears her voice echoing his ...

I can see it’s a way of opening a centuries-old tragedy up to a new audience, but the fact of the matter is that The Duchess of Malfi is an incredibly weird play and making it superficially more ...

“Jodie Whittaker rules the West End” (Tatler) as she takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris’ provocative “Tarantinoesque revenge tragedy” (Guardian), now playing at the Trafalgar Theatre ...