Tag: history plays
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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, National Theatre
Thursday 23rd April 2015
reviewOverblown revival of Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play about radicals in the English C…
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Oppenheimer, Vaudeville Theatre
Wednesday 15th April 2015
reviewYou’ll need to pay a lot of attention at this new history play about the Father …
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Muscovado, Theatre 503
Wednesday 25th February 2015
reviewFierce new drama about slavery in 19th-century Barbados has some enjoyable singi…
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3 Winters, National Theatre
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
reviewNew family epic set in Croatia is an amazingly full and beautifully humanistic a…
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Doctor Scroggy’s War, Shakespeare’s Globe
Wednesday 17th September 2014
reviewHoward Brenton’s First World War play is interesting, but not always completely …
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Holy Warriors, Shakespeare’s Globe
Wednesday 23rd July 2014
reviewNew epic about the Crusades fails to compellingly communicate the lessons of his…
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Can the Brits do better? (New Writing 2013)
Saturday 1st February 2014
writingIn his speech to the Labour Party conference in September 2013, the leader Ed Mi…
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Only Our Own, Arts Theatre
Friday 10th January 2014
reviewNew history play about the Anglo-Irish is epic in ambition, but bad in every imp…
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Drawing the Line, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 9th December 2013
reviewHoward Brenton’s fascinating new docudrama about the fateful 1947 Partition of I…
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