Cleansed (Almeida, London)Verdict: Bleak and brutalNo rating givenNever mind that we're being assailed by climate change; London's Almeida Theatre is offering some suffering of its own this summer, with its revival of Sarah Kane's notorious 1998 play, Cleansed. It must be hell for the cast, stripping off to simulate blood-soaked sex and mental collapse night after night in Rebecca Frecknall's grimly uncompromising production. You may think there's little left to say about Oscar Wilde; and nothing he didn't say better himself ('to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance'). But Alastair Whatley proves there's room for giving the great writer a life on stage, to tell his own story. Cleansed runs at the Almeida until August 29; The Importance Of Being Oscar is on until August 22.