Atri Banerjee's production of Jean Racine's Britannicus is no Roman Holiday. With the wind of a new translation from Timberlake Wertenbaker in its sails, the production tries to channel the depth of a ...

Britannicus made amends for Warrnambool disappointment, leading all the way at Sandown Lakeside to claim the $150,000 Australian Steeple at Sandown. Symon Wilde-trained Britannicus jumped sweetly for ...

Full casting is announced today for Jean Racine's Roman tragedy Britannicus, translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by award-winning director Atri Banerjee, in a thrilling, new ...

It’s a big ask for a weekday in Hammersmith: a radical reworking of Jean Racine’s 17 th century French verse play about Nero’s metamorphosis from Rome’s brat-emperor into its psycho tyrant. At least ...

Even Timberlake Wertenbaker can’t quite ignite Racine’s tyrannical hero; Harry Hill’s New Labour musical is a gag-filled joy; and the spirits move for Mark Ravenhill When Jean Racine wrote Britannicus ...

There's a stuffed wolf on stage, silently snarling its way through the opening scenes of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s biting new update on Jean Racine's 1669 play ‘Britannicus’. It's a reference to the ...

Timberlake Wertenbaker’s take on Racine’s version of ancient Rome is replete with power-crazed emperors, deadly poison and juicy family politics Rome might have teemed with power-crazed emperors but ...

So she plays her lethally capricious son Nero (William Robinson, excellent) off against stepson Britannicus (Nathaniel Curtis from It's A Sin) and it's a power play that can only end in blood. We use ...

BRITANNICUS REVIEW: A fantastically entertaining modern dress look at the early days of Emperor Nero at the Lyric Hammersmith. The razor-sharp script is anchored by a sensational central performance ...