Tag: farce
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Entertaining Mr Sloane
Wednesday 8th October 2025
blogText of the day: “I don’t want her in here.”
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Entertaining Mr Sloane, Young Vic
Wednesday 24th September 2025
reviewLively star-led revival of Joe Orton’s 1964 debut raises uncomfortable questions…
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The Literary Gaze
Sunday 1st June 2025
writingHere is a sample from the introduction to my latest book about postwar British t…
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Rhinoceros, Almeida Theatre
Thursday 3rd April 2025
reviewEugene Ionesco’s 1959 classic — his vision of conformity and nihilism — gets an …
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L’Addition, Battersea Arts Centre
Tuesday 5th November 2024
reviewThe latest in Forced Entertainment’s 40 years of experiment is a thought-ticklin…
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Nachtland, Young Vic
Tuesday 27th February 2024
reviewMarius von Mayenburg’s latest is a satire on art and anti-Semitism — both absurd…
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The Sex Party, Menier Chocolate Factory
Wednesday 16th November 2022
reviewTerry Johnson returns with a sex comedy that is neither sexy nor funny — very di…
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About What the Butler Saw
Thursday 7th May 2020
blogOver the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and…
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Philip King savours his reviews
Tuesday 5th May 2020
blogOne from the archives: Philip King’s most famous play is the farce See How They …
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