Articles by Mark Lawson

World

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift review – TV detective adaptation is occasionally lethal

Guy Unsworth ups the jokes in a play that is loving towards its prime-time TV source and hugely entertaining for fans

‘Perfection’: how Prunella Scales’s Sybil Fawlty is one of TV comedy’s best characters

The accomplished classical actress had a perfect ear and the ability to effortlessly pull off demanding jokes. Her performance as Sybil alongside John Cleese in Fawlty Towers was one of sitcoms’ finest

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – carnage in New Carthage as couples fight, flirt, booze and bruise

Cathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee’s verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished souls