Tag: Middle East
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Salomé, National Theatre
Tuesday 9th May 2017
reviewNew twist on the biblical story gets bogged down in a portentous, verbose and ov…
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Occupational Hazards, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 8th May 2017
reviewFascinating and fast-moving docudrama about post-invasion southern Iraq has a bi…
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Dubailand
Tuesday 14th February 2017
blogText of the day: “Everything here is beautiful.”
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Oil, Almeida Theatre
Friday 14th October 2016
reviewNew epic about mothers and daughters in the age of oil is wonderfully ambitious,…
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Lawrence After Arabia
Monday 16th May 2016
blogText of the day: “No, I betrayed them.”
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Lawrence After Arabia, Hampstead Theatre
Friday 6th May 2016
reviewHoward Brenton’s new study of desert warrior T E Lawrence is more like a frustra…
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Crossing Jerusalem, Park Theatre
Friday 7th August 2015
reviewRevival of Julia Pascal’s 2003 play about the intifada is intelligent and powerf…
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Holy Warriors
Friday 25th July 2014
blogText of the day: “There will never be a lasting peace while there is no humility…
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Holy Warriors, Shakespeare’s Globe
Wednesday 23rd July 2014
reviewNew epic about the Crusades fails to compellingly communicate the lessons of his…
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