Tag: history plays
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Mr Foote’s Other Leg, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 21st September 2015
reviewSimon Russell Beale shines as the 18th-century comical mimic, but the play is to…
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Our Country’s Good, National Theatre
Thursday 27th August 2015
reviewEpic but touching revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s modern classic has music b…
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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Thursday 7th May 2015
blogText of the day: “All inhabitants that have not lost their birthright should hav…
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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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