Whittaker’s Duchess suffers at the hands of her sweatily lecherous Cardinal brother, played with malign relish by Motherland’s Paul Ready. In one scene ... and Jodie Whittaker in Venus ...

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.

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 ...

As David Tennant transfers Macbeth to the West End and Ncuti Gatwa prepares for an upcoming production of The Importance of Being Earnest, fellow Doctor Who alumna Jodie Whittaker makes her own ...

A star rating of 2 out of 5. Jodie Whittaker’s spotless performance as a headstrong and sexually-liberated The Duchess is sadly not enough to save this hollow and disparate production.

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 ...

The Duchess of Malfi with Jodie Whittaker: so overly dramatic and overstimulating that you struggle to take it seriously The first act trundles along and you kind of suspend your disbelief.

Mortifying blunder - and if I were talking to anyone other than Jodie Whittaker, I may have closed the laptop right there. Fortunately, the actress is well known as one of the best-humoured, least ...

And the first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, is taking on the title role in The Duchess (of Malfi) at the Trafalgar Theatre. The play, written and directed by Scottish theatremaker Zinnie Harris ...

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

Jodie Whittaker makes a bold return ... the indomitable Duchess is psychologically tortured in scenes that recall Abu Ghraib abuses. Whittaker exudes battered nobility as she declares Webster ...