Carey Mulligan is at her best in Girls & Boys, a tragic, emotionally pulverising new play about loss that has a distinct freshness to it, which the star feeds from as she performs on stage alone.
Playwright Dennis Kelly is equally hot right now. He was behind the National Theatre’s recent Pinocchio, but at the Royal Court, he is being truly innovative. Girls & Boys is a fresh piece of writing, and the first major play to tackle family annihilation, the act of a family member killing one of their own family. Why does it happen, and why are the killers mainly… Read the full story