“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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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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Five Plays about Enslavement by Black British Women Playwrights
“There’s a sidestep that Europe does where it takes itself out of the triangle… I’m never quite...
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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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Outside Theatre: Why It Mustn’t Stop After the Pandemic
Indoor theatre is back. Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I’ve seen two packed shows...
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“Rare Earth Mettle,” Royal Court
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of...
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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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Digital Play Dissecting Consumerism Culture, A Review of “Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran”
The play Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, authentically narrates the story of a...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida Theatre
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can’t be the only person to thrill to this play’s opening...
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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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