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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Janice Okoh’s “The Gift” at the Theatre Royal Stratford East: Complex and Powerful Account of Race and Empire
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s,...
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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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Alexandra Wood’s “The Tyler Sisters” at the Hampstead Theatre: The Future Is Female In Epic Family Saga
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That...
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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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“Trojan Horse” at the Battersea Arts Centre
Media hysteria needs good branding. So when in March 2014 an email letter was leaked to the press,...
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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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“Judgement Day”: Illusions of Grandeur
Two years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a stunning production of Eugene...
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Lucy McCormick: Post-Popular at Soho Theatre
Lucy McCormick specializes in historical re-enactments, she tells us, and she is here to play all...
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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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Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey” at the Trafalgar Studios
It is hard to believe that Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only nineteen. This...
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Time to Listen: Go For a Walk With Sounds Made By Migrant Domestic Workers
I’m not apologizing: this is going to take time. Visit a website. Choose an image: of a bag of...
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“Inchoate Buzz:” A Testing Ground for Interaction and Interdisciplinarity
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with...
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