“Shedding a Skin” at Soho Theatre
Love is the most difficult four-letter word. And platonic love is perhaps the hardest kind of...
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“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 Pandemic Nearly Killed Theatre — The Creative Way It Fought Back Could Leave It Stronger
When the UK went into lockdown in 2020, its multibillion-pound theatre industry could have ceased...
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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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Decolonising Shakespeare: Setting Othello in Ghana and Pericles in Glasgow
Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for...
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“The 4th Country,” Park Theatre
History is a prison. Often, you can’t escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and...
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Four Times Shakespeare Has Inspired Stories About Robots and AI
Science fiction is a genre very much associated with technological marvels, innovations, and...
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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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“Best of Enemies,” Young Vic
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be...
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How Enid Blyton Created the Template for Children’s Theatre in Britain
Head to London’s West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired by...
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Zadie Smith: How “The Wife of Willesden” Brings to Life Chaucer’s Tale of Sex and Power
It could be easy to assume that The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle...
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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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“Old Bridge”, Bush Theatre
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
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“Sessions”, Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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