A grave — the ultimate cooped-up location — may be a key setting for “The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar),” but there’s an inspired expansiveness to this time-traveling new drama ...

Much of the play is serious in nature, but just like that heavenly apparition, funny moments sporadically occur. Not all of the elements and themes of The Great Privation meld, nor does the patchy ...

Regina Matshega was gossiping with a neighbor over a fence between their shacks in the Phomolong squatter camp last month when a very unexpected sight suddenly popped into view: two ruddy-cheeked ...

You think, we carry our ancestors with us? No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know. 1832: a mother and daughter stand ...

Mohammad Matar, a civil engineer, and his family have remained in the city even as Israeli ground forces continue their relentless assault. By Yousur Al-Hlou reporting from Cairo For years, Mohammad ...

In a week that has focused national attention on the horror of the infected blood scandal, a redoubtable pub theatre in Battersea is offering a further grim reminder that underhand medical practice ...

Most modern writers accept that a privation theory of evil should explicitly account for the evil of pain. But pains are quintessentially real. The evil of pain does not seem to lie in an absence of ...

THE fairy lights are already twinkling in shop windows and the nights are getting colder: with six weeks to go, many households are turning their thoughts to Christmas, working out what size of turkey ...

The Great Privation, a UK debut play by Nia Akilah Robinson, who hails from Harlem, and was shortlisted for Theatre 503’s international playwriting award, revisits the phenomenon of 18th- and ...