Sunday, March 10, 2019
'Grainy portraits': Brendan MacDonald reviews Tom Ratcliffe's new play, which explores the 'struggle to find long-lasting love' as a gay man.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:24AMMonday, February 25, 2019
Fossil hunters: Kandinsky's new devised show brilliantly excavates the history of science to unearth the human cost of the discovery of dinosaurs, writes Brendan MacDonald.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:56AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Sinful pageantry: Paulette Randall's production of Marlowe's play brings out all its wicked humour.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:09AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
What's changed? Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence's show explores whether representation for disabled people has really moved on.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:27AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
'A stunning show that looks inward to thrust outwards': Brendan MacDonald reviews Bryony Kimmings' new solo performance
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:11AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Is there digital life after death?: Brendan Macdonald's review of Chris Goode's performance takes the form of a Twitter feed.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 09:20AMSunday, August 19, 2018
Dealer's choice: Brendan Macdonald on Ontroerend Goed's interactive game about the world of banking.
The post Review: Lies at Almeida Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:32PMThursday, August 16, 2018
A conversation: Brendan Macdonald reviews Ad Infinitum's new show about fatherhood.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:29PMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Simon Longman's new play highlights the cyclical bleakness of village life.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:14AMMonday, August 13, 2018
Why not add a little camp to the divided camps?: Brendan Macdonald reviews Jonny Woo's glam take on a glum subject.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:49AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Ian McKellan is exceptional in a King Lear that's all about Lear.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:58AMMonday, July 9, 2018
A fictional, dreamlike vision of Ireland: Michael Grandage's Martin McDonagh revival loses its way amid all the blood.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:15AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Little nods to what you could become: Brendan Macdonald reviews Joe Harbot's new show about striving for perfection.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:39AMMonday, May 21, 2018
'This is a show, and we are living through it together': Brendan Macdonald reviews Split Britches's Kubrick-inspired performance.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:56PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Popularity, football, sex and drugs: Brendan Macdonald reviews Kenneth Emson's new play set in an Essex school
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:59AMMonday, April 9, 2018
Restoring the balance: James Macdonald revives this classic Congreve with wit and wariness.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:07AMFriday, March 30, 2018
Honouring the past: Brendan Macdonald reviews Matthew Lopez's two-part play inspired by E. M. Forster
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:32AMMonday, March 26, 2018
A passionless adaptation: this new version of Manuel Puig's story finds neither potency nor 21st century relevance.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:19AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Around the block: collaborative company Kandinsky's new show is an intelligent history of housing.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 26, 2018
NO FUTURE: Brendan Macdonald reviews Chris Goode's stage version of Derek Jarman's Jubilee
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:06AMFriday, February 23, 2018
The profound absurdity of identity: Told By An Idiot's new show is silly but shallow.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:42PMMonday, February 19, 2018
The myth of childhood innocence: Brendan Macdonald reviews Monica Dolan's monologue about a mother giving her child what she thinks she wants.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:21AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Roots and routes: Brendan Macdonald reviews Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about identity, freedom, and brotherhood.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:24PMMonday, January 22, 2018
A talent for unearthing character interiority: Brendan Macdonald reviews Caroline Byrne's take on Bertram and Helena's sort-of love story.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:05AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Then and now: Ann Deavere Smith's verbatim piece uses the past to interrogate the present.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Brash and arresting, profane and profound: Brendan Macdonald reviews a revival of Steven Berkoff's East End play.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:26AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
And other back-page freak accidents... Brendan Macdonald reviews a revival of Abi Morgan's 2001 play about causality and the past.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:59AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
"A Victor Hugo musical? It’ll never work." Brendan Macdonald reviews the London transfer of The Grinning Man.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:42AMMonday, December 11, 2017
Fate, will and loss: Brendan Macdonald reviews the staging of a lesser known work by J. M. Barrie.
The post Review: Dear Brutus at the Southwark Playhouse appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:56AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Evocative and alienating: Deafinitely Theatre's production of a brutal workplace drama opens New Diorama's new performance space.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:54AMMonday, November 6, 2017
"Smart, sharp and exhilarating": Brendan Macdonald reviews Thomas Eccleshare's thrillingly tricksy two-hander about the stories behind the stories.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:12AM 
