Tag: history plays
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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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Grief, National Theatre
Wednesday 21st September 2011
reviewThe long-awaited new play by national treasure Mike Leigh is set in the 1950s an…
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Little Eagles, Hampstead Theatre
Thursday 21st April 2011
reviewEpic new historical play about Soviet cosmonauts is both too long and too unfocu…
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Blood and Gifts, National Theatre
Tuesday 14th September 2010
reviewWeak new play about the war in Afghanistan looks back to the 1980s instead of ta…
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Danton’s Death, National Theatre
Friday 30th July 2010
reviewBüchner classic gets the magic Michael Grandage treatment — and stars the charis…
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