The brutal torture scenes that follow in the grim second half, at the hands of her twin Ferdinand (played with sadistic, raving resolve by Rory Fleck Byrne), are distressing and overwhelming.

Jodie Whittaker's time as the Doctor may be controversial, but there are still plenty of great episodes to look back on. The Thirteenth Doctor’s run is one of the more polarizing in the show’s ...

Jodie Whittaker bounds into a back room at the Trafalgar ... played with malign relish by Motherland’s Paul Ready. In one scene, graphic images, appearing to show her husband and son being ...

Jodie Whittaker makes a bold return to the stage ... absurd second half where the indomitable Duchess is psychologically ...

A few times, characters step up to the microphone to sing out their inner lives, Whittaker revealing a beautifully ... There are horrific scenes of femicide. Then, the murdered women drift through ...

And instead of opening with long dialogues on contemporary court politics, Jodie Whittaker sashays on in a bright red dress and croons about how love makes her feel on fire — only the first of the ...

Jodie Whittaker’s Duchess of Malfi strides on ... but again they don’t feel explored. There are moving scenes in Harris’s production. The female characters occasionally express ...

Jodie Whittaker’s spotless performance as a headstrong ... seems to relish in putting on stage the most traumatic scenes of brutality against women I have ever seen. The play follows the titular ...

It might be Halloween week, but Netflix is on a festive roll with the first trailer for new British animation That Christmas.

Zinnie Harris’s radical reworking of John Webster’s Jacobean gore-fest was first seen in 2019 and comes to the West End starring Jodie Whittaker in her first ... increasingly cartoonish and the final ...

Jodie Whittaker and Rory Fleck Byrne in The Duchess ... sexually assaults and murders his way through the play. Such scenes are shocking in their brutality but when other moments call for more ...