In this version, the recently widowed Duchess gets the first word: the play boldly opens with Whittaker at a microphone stand on a white-tiled stage, wearing a sexy Fifties-style red sheath dress ...

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 ...

Jodie Whittaker bounds into a back room at the Trafalgar ... “When I think I can’t do something, it’s like a red rag to a bull.” After she graduated from the Guildhall in 2005, her career ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jodie Whittaker’s Duchess of Malfi strides on to the stage in a scarlet cocktail dress and confidently ...

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 ...

Jodie Whittaker’s spotless performance ... bears the hallmarks of a Tarantino film. From the off, Whittaker slinks onto stage in a red dress and sings a sultry ballad, before the characters ...

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 stage ... dressed defiantly in red as she ...

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.

Doctor Who fans have a chance to buy Jodie Whittaker's TARDIS from Eve of the Daleks in an upcoming auction to benefit BBC Children in Need. The episode finds the Thirteenth Doctor (Whittaker ...

Stark lighting. Ear-splitting judders of sound. A few times, characters step up to the microphone to sing out their inner lives, Whittaker revealing a beautifully soulful voice – but the device ...

The Duchess [of Malfi] marks Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker’s long ... In the opening scene we’re introduced to Whittaker as the titular aristocrat, a red-dressed vixen, crooning about ...