Adapted from Maggie Nelson's book of prose poems, "Bluets" has been staged by director Katie Mitchell using her "live cinema" concept – a mix of live action and video screens. The result is an ...

How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey. By Houman Barekat ...

One night in 1969, Jane Mixer – the author's maternal aunt and a student at the University of Michigan – was shot and strangled to death, her body abandoned in a cemetery. Over the years ...

The overwhelming draw of Bluets is that it stars Ben Whishaw, too infrequently seen on London stages (although he’ll be back later this year for Waiting for Godot). This gloriously shapeshifting ...

Maggie Nelson never claims that Bluets is a reply to William Gass’s On Being Blue: a Philosophical Inquiry, but she does take Gass on in her brilliant book on suffering, loss, love, and language. In ...

No label is quite right, no category quite enough. Works like “Bluets” and last year’s “The Argonauts” are full of sentences that move from the personal to the critical, take a dip into ...

Which is very sad because Bluets is the first offering from Royal Court’s new artistic director David Byrne, hyped up as, in his words, “the path of maximum adventure”. Unfortunately, it’s neither as ...

She is, however, pedantic in the best sense of the word, and very literary. She’s the author of Bluets, a small, lyrical gem of a book, which pokes an insistent finger at everything blue.

The Royal Court's new artistic director, the playwright David Byrne, has launched his tenure with a production "so technically sophisticated that it leaves the head spinning, but so full of poetic ...