Tag: tragedy
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Reykjavik, Hampstead Theatre
Friday 25th October 2024
reviewDrama frozen in the Arctic wastes of detail: Richard Bean’s new play revisits th…
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Sunset Boulevard, Savoy Theatre
Wednesday 13th December 2023
reviewJamie Lloyd’s thrilling revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical: excess, e…
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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Barbican Theatre
Friday 31st March 2023
reviewKathryn Hunter is sublime in Complicité’s brilliant stage adaptation of Olga Tok…
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Karl Marx on history
Saturday 5th May 2018
blogQuote of the day: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts a…
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Doctor Faustus, Barbican Theatre
Thursday 22nd September 2016
reviewTwo actors share the roles of scholar and tempter in a pacy production that bril…
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Doctor Faustus
Thursday 5th May 2016
blogText of the day: “Listen, the village, the town, the city is out there for the t…
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The Duchess of Malfi
Thursday 16th January 2014
blogText of the day: “We are merely the stars’ tennis balls, struck and banded which…
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About Word Made Flesh
Sunday 24th April 2011
blogI’ve often been tempted to talk about leftfield theatre, meaning the kind of dra…
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About George Steiner and Trojan Wars
Saturday 25th April 2009
blogRecent history suggests that we, as a society, still have a desire to wage just …
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