“Sea Creatures,” Hampstead Theatre
Is it possible to successfully challenge naturalism in British theatre today? At a time when...
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Is it possible to successfully challenge naturalism in British theatre today? At a time when...
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History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth...
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At the age of 81, Caryl Churchill, Britain’s greatest living playwright, is still going strong....
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There is no denying that Cary Churchill is the greatest living British playwright. So, what you...
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A defrocked minister who botches up his job as a tour guide; a recently widowed hotel manager who...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom
There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s the stuff of nightmares. There’s a massive explosion, the sound of smashing glass, falling...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Apr 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Let us have a quick moan about repertoire. You know, the types of plays that most of our theatres...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Jan 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Annoying as it is, I have to start with a spoiler alert. That’s because what’s most interesting to...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 2nd Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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