Inordinately sad new play from David Hare shifts this playwright's onetime focus toward a land of disinterest and despair, corruption and inaction. Actual topic -- Britain's railways since they were ...

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2 Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath "Why aren't people angry? They were robbed. What belonged to them was taken from them by a bunch of bankers and incompetent politicians. What ...

David Hare's state-of-the-railways play The Permanent Way charts the decline of the railways in this country since privatisation. But how did it play with those actually working on the lines? Here, ...

Near the start of David Hare's new play, The Permanent Way, a character says: "I can't imagine why you want to write a play about the railways. It's an incredibly boring subject. I'm sure, as you say, ...

Twenty-two years after the Southall train crash – one of the four major accidents that jolted the country into realising that corporate failure could have consequences every bit as bloody as human ...