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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Pinter Three review at Harold Pinter Theatre, London – ‘thrilling performances’ by Natasha Tripney

Jamie Lloyd’s dauntingly ambitious and carefully curated season of Harold Pinter’s entire body of shorter works continues with a series of pieces

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Friday, November 9, 2018

Don Quixote review at Garrick Theatre, London – ‘entertaining and poignant’ by Natasha Tripney

First staged in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ death, James Fenton’s adaptation of Don Quixote compresses the sprawling novel into just

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The Exorcism review at Battersea Arts Centre, London – ‘funny, eerie, and formally playful’ by Natasha Tripney

Poet and performer Ross Sutherland relishes an experiment. He’s written palindrome plays and interactive comedy gigs, as well as the sublime fusion

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The Madness of George III starring Mark Gatiss review at Nottingham Playhouse – ‘Gatiss rises to the challenge’ by Natasha Tripney

Announced well over a year ago, this production was always intended to be a high point in Adam Penford’s first year as

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Monday, November 5, 2018

Jeton Neziraj: the playwright exploring Kosovo’s identity on stage by Natasha Tripney

Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj is helping to explore the national identity of the 10-year-old country, Europe’s youngest, with his company Qendra Multimedia.

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The Funeral Director review at Southwark Playhouse, London – ‘sensitive and nuanced’ by Natasha Tripney

Iman Qureshi’s The Funeral Director, this year’s winner of the Papatango prize for new writing, is a sensitive and nuanced exploration of

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Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (November 5-11) by Natasha Tripney

White Teeth – Kiln Theatre, London The second production in the rechristened Kiln Theatre’s autumn season is an adaptation of Zadie Smith’s acclaimed debut

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Wolves review at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London – ‘skilful evocation of adolescence’ by Natasha Tripney

Sarah DeLappe’s debut play, a 2017 Pulitzer prize-finalist, is a skilfully drawn coming-of-age tale set in a US girls’ junior soccer team.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Close Quarters review at Crucible Studio, Sheffield – ‘banter and bravado’ by Natasha Tripney

In 2016, the ban was lifted on women in the British army fighting in close combat roles. Kate Bowen’s new play takes this

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Monday, October 29, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (October 27-November 4) by Natasha Tripney

The Wolves – Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Ellen McDougall directs the European premiere of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, a play that uses

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Friday, October 26, 2018

I and You starring Maisie Williams review at Hampstead Theatre – ‘an underwhelming teen two-hander’ by Natasha Tripney

Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America today. I and You is one of her most popular plays.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The audition was an assault course: women seize combat roles in new play by Natasha Tripney

Kate Bowen talks about her drama Close Quarters, exploring the aspirations and gender wars of three female squaddiesIn 2016, the ban on women in the British army fighting in close combat ro…

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The Wild Duck review at Almeida Theatre, London – ‘dazzling precision’ by Natasha Tripney

He’s done it again. Having made Hamlet feel freshly hatched, Almeida associate Robert Icke does the same for Ibsen’s 1884 play. The

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Natasha Tripney: It’s time for theatre to stop stereotyping Eastern Europeans by Natasha Tripney

The largest foreign-born community in the UK is Polish – it makes up 4.5% of London’s foreign-born population – yet still theatre

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Monday, October 22, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (October 22-28) by Natasha Tripney

Macbeth – Barbican Theatre, London Polly Findlay’s Royal Shakespeare Company production, starring Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, received mixed reviews when it opened in

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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Wise Children review at Old Vic, London – ‘mess, melancholy and magic’ by Natasha Tripney

This is a labour of love if ever there was one. Emma Rice’s first new production, after her brief, troubled stint at

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Silence review at Mercury Theatre, Colchester – ‘strong performances’ by Natasha Tripney

Exploring the intergenerational fallout of war and diaspora from the perspective of a Polish woman, her daughter, and granddaughter, Silence is a

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Death of a Salesman review at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester – ‘a layered reframing’ by Natasha Tripney

The might of Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer-winning play lies in the way it works simultaneously as a commentary on capitalism as a contaminant

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Monday, October 15, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (October 15-21) by Natasha Tripney

The Inheritance – Noel Coward Theatre, London Matthew Lopez’s ambitious and moving seven- hour, two-part update of EM Forster’s Howards End, exploring the

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Friday, October 12, 2018

Everything That Happened and Would Happen review at Mayfield, Manchester – ‘mesmeric multimedia work’ by Natasha Tripney

Inside a vast disused train station in Manchester, German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels is staging history. Co-commissioned by Artangel, a company

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Measure for Measure review at Donmar Warehouse, London – ‘intriguing but flawed’ by Natasha Tripney

Measure for Measure is all about the relationship between sex and power. It’s one of Shakespeare’s bleakest plays in terms of the

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The Height of the Storm starring Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce review at Wyndham’s Theatre – ‘disorientating and melancholic’ by Natasha Tripney

Prolific French playwright Florian Zeller returns to familiar emotional terrain with his latest work to be staged in the UK, The Height

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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The Sweet Science of Bruising review at Southwark Playhouse – ‘scrappy, but cathartic’ by Natasha Tripney

Set in the 1860s, The Sweet Science of Bruising journeys into the little-known world of Victorian women’s boxing. Joy Wilkinson’s play tells

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Monday, October 8, 2018

Twelfth Night review at Young Vic, London – ‘Kwame Kwei-Armah’s exuberant welcome’ by Natasha Tripney

Come on in. Kwame Kwei-Armah kicks off his artistic directorship of the Young Vic with a condensed but extremely welcoming adaptation of

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Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (October 8-14) by Natasha Tripney

I’m a Phoenix, Bitch – Battersea Arts Centre, London Performer, theatremaker and the force behind A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Dublin Theatre Festival 2018 review – ‘rich, exciting and form-stretching programme’ by Natasha Tripney

The Dublin Theatre Festival, now in its 61st year, takes place over 18 days in venues all around the city. This is

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield – ‘a colourful, if uneven, musical staging’ by Natasha Tripney

Music is central to Sheffield artistic director Robert Hastie’s colourful production of Shakespeare’s comedy. A piano sits in the centre of the

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

BITEF 2018: The Balkan’s political theatre festival stares into the abyss by Natasha Tripney

Now in its 52nd year, BITEF continues to support cutting-edge theatre trends. Natasha Tripney reports from this year’s festival, which explores nationalism

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Monday, October 1, 2018

Top 5 theatre shows to see this week (October 1-7) by Natasha Tripney

Mrs Dalloway – Arcola Theatre, London Having set the world on fire in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe, Clare Perkins plays

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Hamlet starring Ruth Negga review at Gate Theatre, Dublin – ‘Negga is an inspired choice’ by Natasha Tripney

Ruth Negga makes a mesmeric Hamlet in Yael Farber’s production for the Gate Theatre. At the start, she looks unbearably small and

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Friday, September 28, 2018

Pinter at the Pinter One and Two review at the Harold Pinter Theatre – ‘ambitious, unsettling and powerfully performed’ by Natasha Tripney

“One has to be so scrupulous about language,” purrs the interrogator in one of Harold Pinter most chilling plays, his short One for the

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