David Oyelowo

Faultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Weird play, Coriolanus. It’s like a playground fight that spills out into the street and has to be resolved by…

The way we were: Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Margaret, with Donald Sinden and cast members, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Wars of the Roses’, Stratford, 1963

All white on the night

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Trevor Nunn is staging Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses without a single black actor. So what, says Robert Gore-Langton

King maker: David Oyelowo in ‘Selma’, the best performance of the year not nominated for an Oscar

Stealing a march

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Selma, the civil rights film that stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, undoubtedly contains the best and most powerful…

Great coat

24 January 2015 9:00 am

A Most Violent Year is a riveting drama even though I can’t tell you what it’s about, or even what…