Laura Wades’s return to the stage is a bright satire about marriage and nostalgic fantasy The post Home, I’m Darling, National Theatre appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDirector Lyndsey Turner is clearly impatient with the tradition of playing this melancholy drama as a tribute to Chekhov, and her production is thoroughly anti-naturalistic.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis West End revival of smart monologue about drug dealing on the Dark Web is well written if a bit slight.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNow, on the main stage at the Royal Court Theatre, Rory Mullarkey’s leftfield fantasy, Pity, offers a surreal state-of-the-world account of our society, and of its discombobulations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFor a play about storytelling, most of A Monster Calls is oddly unengaging and bland. Worst of all, it does the audience’s moral work for them, being increasingly didactic and offering its…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAllelujah! is not a masterpiece, mainly because most of the characters are underdeveloped and there is too much going on, but it is extremely funny and it has something very urgent to say, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe clarity and resonance of the writing turns the tale into art, and the quality of direction, design and, above all, the magnificence of the acting, make this one of the best theatre exper…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs directed by Michael Grandage, whose revival of John Logan’s Red is just around the corner at the Wyndham’s Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore proves that some black humour doesn’t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDirector Sarah Meadows and designer Georgia de Grey have created a detailed and often humorous world in Alkaline in at the Park Theatrewith a cast that is agreeably bright and pretty convinc…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThis is certainly a major theatrical event — Cicero’s speeches, with their mixture of sarcasm and idealism, are great, but not everyone will enjoy the comic interpretation of some of the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDespite some enjoyable scenes, this is more of a comedy revue than a compelling drama. And just proves that we really don’t need another play on the fertility industry.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIt could be the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, except this time it’s happening in London. And it is also the powerful start of Cordelia Lynn’s new play, One for Sorrow, which has ju…
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMPolly Findlay’s fluent production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie avoids the fluting exaggerations of some previous versions and tells the story with a fine appreciation of its grounding …
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSo there’s a real feeling of anticipation about this revival of his 1980 drama, Translations, a major play which has enjoyed an enormously good international reputation since its first sta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFor a comedy, there are not enough laughs. Although Torben Betts is perfectly skilled at delivering humorous dialogues, in Monogamy there is very little sun, but plenty of glowering darkness.
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