11 stories by "Jeremy Austin"
Soho, London: With his mixture of anger, self-awareness and metacomedy (like self-referential metatheatre but comedy - I might have made the term up), Eddie Pepitone's Edinburgh Festiva…
Cottesloe, National Theatre, London: The Houses of Parliament are probably more worthy of the title of National Theatre than the building that James Graham's detailed world premiere tak…
Duchess, London: It's the final piece of dialogue that defines Our Boys. Joe, a soldier injured in the IRA bomb attack on Horseguards Parade, on his knees, centre stage, for only the se…
Arts Theatre, London: Baggage is a play in desperate need of editing. The premise is sort of fine - the perils of internet dating and the structuring has a Neil LaBute tinge. But the executi…
Duke of York's, London: First Jerusalem, then Posh - now Jumpy, yet another West End smash transfer from the Royal Court. And this certainly has all the hallmarks of a hit production.
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Donmar Warehouse, London: Philadelphia, Here I Come never loses its power. Particular when a revival features a cast working as fluidly and organically as that assembled by the Donmar.
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Trafalgar Studio 2: Chicken author Mike Batistick says in the programme notes that he was trying to "address the issues on my mind" with the script. If Chicken has one standout pro…
Almeida, London: There's something familiar about Children's Children - the setting, the story, even the characters, although they are well performed. Wherever the play takes us, w…
Soho, London: This could be a whole new field of entertainment - live comedy sponsorship of a product. Dixie, a booze-swilling, trashy American reluctant mother really is selling the Tupperw…
Duke of York's, London: Zach Braff's debut as a feature film writer was the wonderful Garden State, so it should be no surprise that his West End debut as a writer and performer should …
Tricycle, London: During Ron Hutchinson's contribution to this ten-play marathon, Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin meet just after the US nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of the Secon…
