Stef Smith’s “Nora: A Doll’s House” at the Young Vic
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is...
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Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” at Wyndham’s Theatre
Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his...
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Brexit Revisited
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
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“Poet in Da Corner” at The Royal Court
The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013,...
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“The Sugar Syndrome” at The Orange Tree Theatre
Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble’s...
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Chris Bush’s “Faustus: That Damned Woman” at the Lyric Hammersmith
Could diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in...
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“Scenes with Girls” at The Royal Court
Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It’s...
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Bard or Blockbuster
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to...
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Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the Harold Pinter Theatre
The wilting characters of Uncle Vanya would like us to believe that their scenes from country life...
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Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance
This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book...
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“Snowflake” at The Kiln Theatre
The prolific Mike Bartlett — from whose pen have leaped television series such as Doctor...
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“Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis” at The Park Theatre
The 1990s were a great decade for new writing, but although the story of those years is often told...
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Sam Steiner’s “You Stupid Darkness!” at the Southwark Playhouse: Unconvincing Post-Apocalyptic Office Fantasy
Turn on the news. Go on. No? Okay, switch on the radio. Why not? Oh, I see, because the news is...
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Review: “Antigone” at the New Diorama Theatre
In her contemporary re-working of Sophocles’ tragedy, Lulu Raczka has chosen to...
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“Cyrano De Bergerac” at The Playhouse Theatre
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC’s His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel...
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“Touching the Void” at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book?...
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“A Kind of People” at The Royal Court
The trouble with prejudice is that you can’t control how other people see you. At the start of her...
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“The Arrival” at The Bush Theatre
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and...
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“Midnight Movie” at The Royal Court
Eve Leigh is an experimental playwright who has tackled difficult issues for more than a decade....
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“There Will Be No Intermission”: Amanda Palmer Speaks Truth in Major Keys
Amanda Palmer has not come to entertain. Instead, she has written and designed what feels like an...
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