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Amy Calladine
Dec 3, 20247 min read
‘The Real Thing’ at the Old Vic Explained: A Play For The Times or Of Its Time?
Tom Stoppard's encrypted word games sing of an ingenious thesis on love and its different forms.


Ashley New
Nov 28, 20245 min read
Old Vic Review: This Mince Pies- and Snow-Filled 'A Christmas Carol' Is A Feast For the Soul
The production itself is a gift to the senses, packed to the brim with old-school theatre magic.


Rowan McDonnell
Nov 25, 20244 min read
Birmingham Rep Review: This Delightfully Surprising 'Christmas Carol' Has Puppets, Projections, and a Narrator
These video projections are second to none and unlike anything I have ever seen from the Rep.


Gillian Choy
Oct 31, 20245 min read
'Barcelona' at the Duke of York's Review: It Doesn’t Just Sightsee, But Leaves A Permanent Mark
This is an evocative play about the past, present, and future; one word for Collins and Morte’s performances: brilliant.

Sophie-May Ward-Marchbank
Oct 22, 20244 min read
An Ageing Tale, Finally Interrogated: 'The Taming of the Shrew' at the Globe, Explained
So hysterical was the acting that it was easy to forget that the thematic undercurrents driving this story are less than comedic.


Gillian Choy
Oct 21, 20243 min read
Performance and History Collide at the Southwark Playhouse: 'Land of the Free' Review
The cast must be applauded for breathing life into the best elements of this play.


Ashley New
Oct 15, 20244 min read
It's What Really Happened To Him: Reviewing 'The Fear of 13' at the Donmar
An emotive and narratively-driven account of a wrongful convict's life story, told with extraordinary candour and humanity.


Amy Calladine
Oct 12, 20245 min read
“DON’T LOOK AT ME”: ‘The Other Place’, A Play That Begs You to Avert Your Eyes, Explained
This play is a twisted and singular success, with echoes of Antigone's tragedy in its melodrama.


Arianna Muñoz
Oct 11, 20244 min read
The Brothers Fall, But The Epic Play Rises Triumphantly: Reviewing The Lehman Trilogy's West End Return
This sweeping, if somewhat flawed, epic tells a grand tale of change and a corrupting American dream.


Gillian Choy
Oct 7, 20243 min read
Reviewing The National's 'Coriolanus': Lay The Play and The Man to Rest
While everyone has been itching to stage this play in the last decade, it takes work to make an exceptional adaptation.
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