The answer is yes and no. It’s a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family play that starts with an unsettling image: a young female has been hooded and tied up in what looks like a terrorist kidnap, ...

London critics have dubbed the rude, shocking playwrights that came of age there in the 1990s the “in yer face” school. But while Philip Ridley is counted among their number, his 2007 play Leaves of ...

Every once in a while, the theater needs a slap in the face. That's just what it got in the mid-1990s, when a group of British playwrights launched a movement that came to be known as "In-Yer-Face ...