Tag: provocation
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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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Censorship in Manchester
Saturday 21st September 2024
blogThis week, I was disturbed to see that Stef O’Driscoll’s new production of A Mid…
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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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Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Bush Theatre
Wednesday 15th November 2023
reviewCharismatic stand-up routine: Samuel Barnett performs a sizzling monologue about…
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Hole, Royal Court
Tuesday 4th December 2018
reviewShort new play from actor Ellie Kendrick is full of ferocity, but is not strong …
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The Best Man, Playhouse Theatre
Tuesday 6th March 2018
reviewGore Vidal’s plodding presidential drama: Martin Shaw and Maureen Lipman fail to…
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Max Stafford-Clark on British theatre
Tuesday 5th September 2017
blogQuote of the day: “Theatre is veering towards entertainment rather than to provo…
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The Devil Inside Him
Sunday 20th January 2013
blogText of the day: “I love to play with your snowballs.”
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Theses on censorship
Sunday 1st April 2012
writingCensorship appears to be simple, but is actually quite complicated.
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