Tag: Look Back in Anger
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Bodies, Southwark Playhouse
Friday 15th February 2019
reviewTerrific revival of largely forgotten playwright James Saunders’s 1977 modern ...
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Who is the greatest living British playwright?
Monday 3rd September 2018
writingOne from the archives: a celebration of Caryl Churchill republished on her 80th ...
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A Day by the Sea, Southwark Playhouse
Friday 6th October 2017
reviewClassic 1953 play by the English Chekhov is fascinating, but rather dated in its...
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Time to Retire? (New Writing 2015-16)
Thursday 1st September 2016
writingAgainst the grain: the Critic meanders through his rancid recollections of a bad...
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John Osborne on playwriting
Tuesday 30th August 2016
blogQuote of the day: “I want to make people feel, to give them lessons in feeling...
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On remembering David Bowie
Monday 11th January 2016
writingThe death of David Bowie provokes the Critic to take a trip down the motorways a...
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British New Writing in an Age of Austerity
Monday 1st December 2014
writingFriday, 7 May 2010; Brixton, south London; darkest night.
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Sex with a Stranger, Trafalgar Studios
Tuesday 7th February 2012
reviewA new tragi-comedy about sexual desire, masculinity and relationships: great tit...
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Inadmissible Evidence, Donmar Warehouse
Tuesday 18th October 2011
reviewDouglas Hodge stars in John Osborne’s 1964 play, which is still disturbing in ...
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