Marriage Material, Lyric Hammersmith

Link to a short review of Richard Bean’s The Big Fellah at the Lyric Hammersmith

New Simon Stephens play gets a rather unengaging production that is too Continental for its own good

Ambitious triptych examines the themes of Empire, race and parenthood, but the show is not quite a hat trick

Unmoving revival of Simon Stephens’s teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth to trendy directorial gimmicks