Tag: well-made play
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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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A Day by the Sea, Southwark Playhouse
Friday 6th October 2017
reviewClassic 1953 play by the English Chekhov is fascinating, but rather dated in its…
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Blue/Orange, Young Vic
Thursday 19th May 2016
reviewAce! Revival of Joe Penhall’s brilliantly written contemporary classic is superb…
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Waste, National Theatre
Tuesday 10th November 2015
reviewStylish revival of Harley Granville Barker’s political classic can’t disguise th…
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French Without Tears, Orange Tree Theatre
Tuesday 13th October 2015
reviewRare revival of Terence Rattigan’s first smash hit about young Englishmen in a F…
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The Vote, Donmar Warehouse
Thursday 7th May 2015
reviewTelevision tie-in features live real-time voting: it’s timely but, hey, isn’t it…
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Roots, Donmar Warehouse
Tuesday 8th October 2013
reviewArnold Wesker’s wonderful 1959 classic about love and politics gets a rare, but …
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The Stepmother, Orange Tree Theatre
Friday 8th February 2013
reviewWell-staged rediscovery of a Githa Sowerby family drama is a clear-sighted accou…
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The Veil, National Theatre
Tuesday 4th October 2011
reviewConor McPherson’s latest is an intelligent ghost story that doesn’t quite work
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