49 stories by "Brendan Macdonald"
'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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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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Sinful pageantry: Paulette Randall's production of Marlowe's play brings out all its wicked humour.
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What's changed? Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence's show explores whether representation for disabled people has really moved on.
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'A stunning show that looks inward to thrust outwards': Brendan MacDonald reviews Bryony Kimmings' new solo performance
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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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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.
A conversation: Brendan Macdonald reviews Ad Infinitum's new show about fatherhood.
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Simon Longman's new play highlights the cyclical bleakness of village life.
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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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Ian McKellan is exceptional in a King Lear that's all about Lear.
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A fictional, dreamlike vision of Ireland: Michael Grandage's Martin McDonagh revival loses its way amid all the blood.
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Little nods to what you could become: Brendan Macdonald reviews Joe Harbot's new show about striving for perfection.
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'This is a show, and we are living through it together': Brendan Macdonald reviews Split Britches's Kubrick-inspired performance.
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Popularity, football, sex and drugs: Brendan Macdonald reviews Kenneth Emson's new play set in an Essex school
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Restoring the balance: James Macdonald revives this classic Congreve with wit and wariness.
The post Review: The Way of the World at the Donmar Warehouse appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
Honouring the past: Brendan Macdonald reviews Matthew Lopez's two-part play inspired by E. M. Forster
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A passionless adaptation: this new version of Manuel Puig's story finds neither potency nor 21st century relevance.
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Around the block: collaborative company Kandinsky's new show is an intelligent history of housing.
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NO FUTURE: Brendan Macdonald reviews Chris Goode's stage version of Derek Jarman's Jubilee
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The profound absurdity of identity: Told By An Idiot's new show is silly but shallow.
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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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Roots and routes: Brendan Macdonald reviews Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about identity, freedom, and brotherhood.
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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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Then and now: Ann Deavere Smith's verbatim piece uses the past to interrogate the present.
The post Review: Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992 at the Gate Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
