“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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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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