Tag: history plays
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Dead on Her Feet, Arcola Theatre
Wednesday 3rd October 2012
reviewRemake of the 1969 film They Shoot Horses Don’t They? is a bit too thin to be a …
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Mary Shelley, Tricycle Theatre
Thursday 14th June 2012
reviewShared Experience return with a tediously long-winded and rather unsatisfying do…
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Chariots of Fire, Hampstead Theatre
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
reviewAs the London Olympics beckon, Ed Hall’s timely version of the 1981 film is too …
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Edward Bond on Bingo
Thursday 15th March 2012
blogQuote of the day: “My account rather flatters Shakespeare.”
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Farewell to the Theatre, Hampstead Theatre
Wednesday 7th March 2012
reviewThe midlife crisis of theatre innovator Harley Granville Barker is interesting, …
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About Travelling Light
Saturday 21st January 2012
blogTravelling Light, a new history play by Nicholas Wright, directed by Nicholas Hy…
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Travelling Light, National Theatre
Wednesday 18th January 2012
reviewAntony Sher stars in a new play about how the Eastern European imagination creat…
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Collaborators, National Theatre
Wednesday 2nd November 2011
reviewSimon Russell Beale has a chilling presence as Stalin in well-written account of…
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The Last of the Duchess, Hampstead Theatre
Wednesday 26th October 2011
reviewHistory beckons as Wallis Simpson’s last years are examined in this deep and fun…
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