Carmen Disruption, Almeida Theatre
Playwright Simons Stephens has made a long journey. Starting off as a young in-yer-face writer, then pausing to mellow over slices of life, then winning awards with state-of-the-nation family dramas and teen plays, he has ended up by brilliantly adapting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. But, ever since his Three Kingdoms was staged here in 2012, in his heart has been the desire to be a Continental p…