“Cock” at The Ambassadors Theatre
Mike Bartlett’s Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has...
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“Red Pitch”, Bush Theatre
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
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“The Forest,” Hampstead Theatre
Let’s start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains...
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“The Chairs” at The Almeida Theatre
Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 play The Chairs belongs to the moment of post-second world war European...
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“Uncanny Valley” at The Battersea Arts Centre
When Uncanny Valley premiered back in 2018, the idea of artificial intelligence augmenting or...
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“Peggy For You,” Hampstead Theatre
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...
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“The Glow,” Royal Court
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others...
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“Trouble In Mind,” National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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About “Fair Play”
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
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About “Milk and Gall”
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
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A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…): Interview with Pablo Manzi and William Gregory
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) marks Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi’s English-language...
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“Trouble in Mind”, National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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“Cabaret” at the Playhouse Theatre
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! Come on in: we need, after all, some respite from a world in...
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The Normal Heart, National Theatre
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the...
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“Where I Call Home”: Translating “Gens du pays”
Wolves and a dark night. The perfect match. Those lines get me every time. From the first time I...
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“The Tragedy of Macbeth” at the Almeida Theatre
What does it take to stretch Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy to a runtime of over three hours? Not,...
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Shahid Iqbal Khan’s “10 Nights” at the Bush Theatre: Moving Insight into Ritual and Belief
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the...
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Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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Rockets and Blue Lights, National Theatre
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
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“RashDash: Look at Me, Don’t Look at Me,” Paines Plough Roundabout
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your...
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