With his company Lost Dog, Duke has a gift for the flipside of stories. As in his award-winning, one-man Paradise Lost, he looks for the cracks in a narrative, levering them open to find comedy and ...

Remarkably, though, Ruination (what a downer of a title!) succeeds in navigating its tortuous path between violent deeds and lacerating regrets by way of verbal comedy as well as bold and surprising ...

Ben Duke brings fresh life to the classics again with deft movement between tragedy and comedy Is entering the afterlife like being stuck in a telephone customer service nightmare? It is a very ...

In this last of the main offerings in the Almeida’s big, bold Greek season, we’re in some ways back where we started with Oresteia – wholesale updating that tries to accommodate everything within a ...

Of all the subjects for a Christmas show, choreographer Ben Duke must have picked the most unlikely. Ruination is his retelling of Medea: not just Greek tragedy, but a story where a mother kills her ...