Tag: in-yer-face theatre
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Roland Barthes on the violent despair of lovers
Wednesday 24th February 2016
blogQuote of the day: “The amorous catastrophe may be close to what has been called,…
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Cleansed, National Theatre
Tuesday 23rd February 2016
reviewKatie Mitchell’s revival of Sarah Kane’s 1998 play sees it as a ghastly nightmar…
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Clickbait, Theatre 503
Friday 22nd January 2016
reviewNew play about internet porn is both an entertaining fable and a disturbing visi…
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Herons, Lyric Hammersmith
Thursday 21st January 2016
reviewUnmoving revival of Simon Stephens’s teen-bully play sacrifices emotional truth …
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Sarah Kane: an interview
Friday 1st January 2016
writingOne from the archives: an interview with playwright Sarah Kane dated 1998, the y…
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The Wasp, Trafalgar Studios
Tuesday 15th December 2015
reviewLatest thriller from the Hampstead Theatre sees a reunion of two female childhoo…
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A Brief Dictionary of Playwrights
Wednesday 1st July 2015
writingExplore the work of a handful of British theatre’s brightest and most exciting w…
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Violence and Son, Royal Court
Monday 8th June 2015
reviewNew play about the troubled masculinity of fathers and sons is very hard to stom…
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Trainspotting, King’s Head Theatre
Saturday 21st March 2015
reviewClassic of 1990s in-yer-face theatre revived in an energetic if messy immersive …
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