Here’s a turn-up for the books. Hampstead greeted the New Year with a Stoppard play, Rock ’n’ Roll (2006), that’s regarded as ...

The Invention of Love opens with 77-year old Housman (Simon Russell Beale) being ferried across the Styx to Hades. Along the ...

It does the production no harm, too, that director Blanche McIntyre has Simon Russell Beale as the poet. From the moment he shuffles out in the Stygian gloom and says, quite matter-of-factly, “I’m ...

Can men really love each other – without sex? Or, to put it another way, how many different forms of male love can you name?

Well, I’m dead. Good,’ declares A.E Housman (Simon Russell Beale) as the opening line of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Considering its subject matter, the first scene is very funny indeed. Hou ...

It helps hugely that the actor tasked with inhabiting the dusty elder Housman (“AEH”) is Simon Russell Beale; SRB is the LRB of the acting world – so transparently cerebral that he bears the ...