Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’s The Mirror and the Light at the Gielgud Theatre: Engaging, but Rather Low Key
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Oct 2021 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of...
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The word “Rustbelt” is really eloquent in its evocation of industrial decline. After all, rust is...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 6th Nov 2018 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
This is a game-changer. “Radical update” is a phrase that is all too often bandied about in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
History repeats itself. This much we know. In the 1980s, under a Tory government obsessed with...
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