Tag: naturalism
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The Blinding Light, Jermyn Street Theatre
Tuesday 12th September 2017
reviewHoward Brenton’s latest takes a scalpel to the collapsing mind of playwright Aug…
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Knives in Hens, Donmar Warehouse
Tuesday 22nd August 2017
reviewStar director Yaël Farber’s revival of a 1990s classic is surely atmospheric, bu…
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Nicholas Hytner on realistic speech
Tuesday 13th June 2017
blogQuote of the day: “None of these people [Dorimant, Lady Bracknell] speak the way…
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While We’re Here, Bush Theatre
Monday 1st May 2017
reviewNew play by Barney Norris is a 70-minute two-hander which is both extremely subt…
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German Skerries, Orange Tree Theatre
Monday 7th March 2016
reviewLovely, and indeed loving, revival of Robert Holman’s resonant 1977 play about l…
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Herons, Lyric Hammersmith
Thursday 21st January 2016
reviewUnmoving revival of Simon Stephens’s teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth …
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Little Light, Orange Tree Theatre
Friday 6th February 2015
reviewNew domestic drama is beguilingly obscure at first, then becomes devastatingly e…
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Widowers’ Houses, Orange Tree Theatre
Friday 9th January 2015
reviewRevival of George Bernard Shaw’s early play about landlord capitalism (and roman…
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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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