Are Monologues The Best Or “The B*easts” At The Bush Theatre?
Monologues are increasingly popular in contemporary British theatre. In an age of austerity, they...
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Immersive “Julius Caesar” at The Bridge Theatre
“Two things only the people anxiously desire—bread and circuses,” said the Roman poet Juvenal. He...
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Alan Bennett’s Next Play Is Set In A Hospital–And It’s Threatened With Closure Thanks To Cuts
Alan Bennett’s next play will focus on an NHS hospital threatened with closure thanks to...
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Men, The Internet, and Politics: “The Believers Are But Brothers” at The Bush Theatre
Do boys never leave the playground? Just when I was reasonably sure that the crisis of masculinity...
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“I Feel As If I’m Loosing My Leaves:” Translatability Of Theme Through Language In Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s Production Of Florian Zeller’s “Y Tad”
The universality of Florian Zeller’s undiminished modern masterpiece The Father has ceased...
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“Privacy:” The Impact Of The Digital Revolution On Private Life
Inspired by the Edward Snowden case, James Graham’s Privacy shows us the consequences of...
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The Way We Talk About Cancer Is Destructive – So I Made A Musical About It
I cannot believe it’s the first month of 2018 and I’m here in the last week of rehearsals for A...
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“Imaginationship” at The Finborough Theatre Explores a Divided Nation
It’s the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Finborough Arms pub, so Neil McPherson, artistic...
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lan Ayckbourn’s “The Divide” at The Old Vic
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn basically comes in two flavors: suburban comedies of embarrassment and...
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“My Mum’s A Twat” at The Royal Court
What a brilliant title! Yes, this one must be up there with the likes of Jim Cartwright’s I Licked...
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“The Grift”: Theatre or Escape Room?
Theatre as a concept is related to the idea of “play.” After all, scripts are plays...
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“The Birthday Party” – Revival at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is modernism dead and buried? Anyone considering the long haul of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday...
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“Rita, Sue And Bob Too” at The Royal Court: The Revival for #MeToo Era
Vicky Featherstone, the artistic director of this new writing venue, is riding high. Very high. A...
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“A Crash Course In Cloudspotting (The Subversive Act Of Horizontality)”: Bringing Awareness Through Art
What does it take to become a cloudspotter? It may sound a romantic idea, but is a term used by...
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Border Force: The Scottish Arts Festival That’s Bringing Two Nations Together
“The Big Burns Supper aims to heal political rifts between the Scots and the English with 11...
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“Tiny Dynamite” at Old Red Lion Theatre
The marvelous is a dangerous place. Especially in memory. Today I still remember seeing the first...
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From Skopje To London Via Hungarian And English: András Visky’s “The Unburied”
In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...
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The Best Dance Shows Coming In 2018
Windrush: Movement of the People Phoenix Dance Theatre marks the 70th anniversary of the journey...
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“The Jungle” at The Young Vic: New Immersive Docu-Drama
Refugees, it is said, have no nationality—they are all individuals. This new docu-drama, The...
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Noises Off: UK Theatre Audiences Have Always Been A Rowdy Lot
Without an audience in the theatre, there’d be no drama. But audiences have been providing rather...
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