Tag: national identity
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You Stupid Darkness!, Southwark Playhouse
Monday 20th January 2020
reviewNew play about optimism is compassionate in conception, but repetitive and frust…
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About the Importance of Being Earnest
Monday 20th January 2020
blogLast week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington’s Tower Theatre, whose c…
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A Kind of People
Sunday 29th December 2019
blogText of the day: “Our dads came here with so much fire in their bellies.”
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Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre 1940–2015
Thursday 12th December 2019
blogThis time, I have taken a critical look at about 75 years of British theatre his…
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Trojan Horse, Battersea Arts Centre
Wednesday 13th November 2019
reviewTouring production of verbatim theatre piece about the Birmingham schools scanda…
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John le Carré on Englishness — and Europe
Monday 11th November 2019
blogQuote of the day: “‘So was it all for England, then?’”
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A History of Water in the Middle East, Royal Court
Monday 14th October 2019
reviewFeminist account of British imperialism is energetic and passionate, but rather …
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Hansard
Saturday 5th October 2019
blogText of the day: “That’s what politics is, Diana.”
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Hansard, National Theatre
Tuesday 3rd September 2019
reviewDebut play about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, and amusingly percept…
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