Tag: history plays
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Lawrence After Arabia, Hampstead Theatre
Friday 6th May 2016
reviewHoward Brenton’s new study of desert warrior T E Lawrence is more like a frustra…
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Single Spies, Richmond Theatre
Tuesday 1st March 2016
reviewRevival of Alan Bennett’s classic double bill about the Cambridge Spies is reson…
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Nell Gwynn
Saturday 13th February 2016
blogText of the day: “No, no, no, no, no!”
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Nell Gwynn, Apollo Theatre
Friday 12th February 2016
reviewGemma Arterton shines wonderfully in West End outing for jolly, if rather superf…
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Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, Arcola Theatre
Friday 8th January 2016
reviewRebecca Lenkiewicz’s new play about witches in the Age of Reason is intelligentl…
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The Moderate Soprano, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 2nd November 2015
reviewDavid Hare’s charming new play is a very English account of a very English insti…
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When We Were Women, Orange Tree Theatre
Thursday 1st October 2015
reviewWonderful revival of Sharman Macdonald’s excellent 1988 play about love, death a…
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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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