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The award-winning theatre director picks his cultural highlights of the moment from Shakespeare to the Clove Club restaurant
Theatre director Jamie Lloyd studied acting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and had his big break directing Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Sheffield Crucible in 2006. In 2008, he won the Olivier award for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre for The Pride, and he was associate director of the Donmar Warehouse from 2008 to 2011. He launched his own production company, Jamie Lloyd Productions, last year and is currently directing a season of work for Trafalgar Transformed, including Pinter's The Hothouse, starring John Simm and Simon Russell Beale, which is on at Trafalgar Studios until 3 August.
The Servant
This is Harold Pinter's greatest screenplay and it has just been re-released – it's a film from the early 60s. I watched it again at the BFI, and it's a masterpiece. Joseph Losey, the director, lights it in such a stunning way it elevates the entire film.
Two Door Cinema Club
They're a brilliant band and both their albums will be the soundtrack to my summer. They're catchy, quirky, idiosyncratic and really playful. I was late to the party in discovering them, but I went to their gig at Alexandra Palace last week. I've become a bit addicted.
Othello
Nick Hytner's contemporary Shakespeares have been a highlight of his regime at the National Theatre, and this is an astonishing production. It's got the most exquisitely detailed performances, and Nick makes it live and breathe in the modern world, which is really thrilling.
Wozzeck
I loved Carrie Cracknell's production of A Doll's House at the Young Vic; she's directing this at English National Opera. It's about a soldier who returns home from battle and faces terrifying visions. The movement direction is by Ann Yee, one of the great unsung heroes of theatre.
A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev
The English National Ballet is getting a much-needed kick up the ass by new director Tamara Rojo. I'm really excited about this tribute to the great Russian dancer in July because he's such an icon. I find ballet quite impenetrable, but when Tamara dances it's completely lived in. She's putting the sex back into ballet.
The Clove Club
A group of young chefs has started this restaurant at Shoreditch town hall, and it was the most astonishing meal I've ever had. Fresh, simple food, cooked to perfection and all about the ingredients rather than the chef's ego. I've never been so excited about a plate of radishes in my life.