Tag: vulgar populism
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Christopher Hampton on Visit from an Unknown Woman
Sunday 14th July 2024
blogQuote of the day: “Thus Visit from an Unknown Woman is the final panel of an inf…
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Till the Stars Come Down, National Theatre
Wednesday 31st January 2024
reviewExuberant comedy with a dark edge: Beth Steel’s new play about three sisters is …
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What a Carve Up!, Barn Theatre
Sunday 29th November 2020
reviewFilm adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s 1994 bestseller is an ingenious whodunnit and …
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A German Life
Friday 26th April 2019
blogText of the day: “They were bewitched by this tiny man.”
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Bollocks to Brexit!
Monday 1st April 2019
writingThe artistic director of Forced Entertainment theatre company makes a heartfelt …
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The Best Man, Playhouse Theatre
Tuesday 6th March 2018
reviewGore Vidal’s plodding presidential drama: Martin Shaw and Maureen Lipman fail to…
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The Plague
Wednesday 19th April 2017
blogText of the day: “Facts are bound to seem reasonable to some and improbable to o…
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Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre
Saturday 23rd April 2016
reviewGame of Thrones celebrity casting can’t save a misconceived, vulgarly populist u…
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wonder.land, National Theatre
Thursday 10th December 2015
reviewDamon Albarn’s Alice in Wonderland musical has fun graphics, but a banal and did…
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