Tag: history plays
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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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In the Next Room, St James Theatre
Friday 22nd November 2013
reviewWarmhearted American sex comedy about vibrators in the Victorian age fails to ac…
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The Pride, Trafalgar Studios
Tuesday 13th August 2013
reviewAtmospheric revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2008 debut is a powerfully satisfyi…
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Repeat performance: a new crisis? (New Writing 2012)
Wednesday 1st May 2013
writingIn the YouTube video of ‘Read All About It’ a little boy smashes up his step sis…
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The Low Road, Royal Court
Wednesday 27th March 2013
reviewBruce Norris’s new satire about capitalism and race is entertaining, but also pr…
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