31 stories by "Neil Dowden"
First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company last year, David Edgar's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol returns with cast changes
As a Holocaust survivor, the Italian-Jewish writer and chemist Primo Levi bore witness to the horrors of Auschwitz in a series of
The first major revival of Mike Bartlett’s Cock shows it to be even more relevant now than when it was first staged
Albert Camus’ seminal 1942 existentialist novel The Outsider (L’Etranger) has been given the first major UK stage adaptation by Man Booker Prize-winning
Tony Harrison's anti-war verse drama Square Rounds is an interesting curiosity. Premiered as a technical extravaganza on the National Theatre's huge Oliver
Complex ideas and striking symbolism: Charlotte Jones makes a successful return to stage-writing with this nineteenth-century drama.
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Despite its title, Alan Bowne's 1987 one-act play Beirut is set in a dystopian future America ravaged by a plague. New York
'Lacks any sense of jeu d'esprit': Neil Dowden reviews Christopher Haydon's relocation of Molière to Trump's America.
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Gregory Evans' Shirleymander is an entertaining satire on 1980s local politics with a dark contemporary resonance. Successfully adapted from his 2009 radio
Weathering the storm: David Haig's D-Day drama is old-fashioned and expertly acted.
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No museum piece: Sean Holmes' self-aware modern-day Sean O'Casey revival doesn't feel revolutionary.
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A Christmas Carol at Windsor Castle seems a perfect match for a Victorian-style Christmas family show. 'The man who invented Christmas' in
The bizarreness takes over from the brutality: Blanche McIntyre's production can't balance the horror and the humour of Shakespeare's bloodbath.
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Very much a character study, not a spy drama: Neil Dowden reviews the Hampstead Theatre's revival of Simon Gray's play about an unlikely friendship.
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Dripping with blood and sweat: Neil Dowden reviews the opening production of the RSC's Rome Season at the Barbican.
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It seems appropriate that after 18 years running Nottingham Playhouse, Giles Croft's final production is Anton Chekhov's 1904 valedictory masterpiece The Cherry
Leo Tolstoy's masterly 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich has been successfully adapted by Stephen Sharkey into a one-man show for
New artistic director Tom Littler opens the first season of Jermyn Street Theatre as a fully producing venue with the world premiere
A defence, not an apology: Neil Dowden reviews Stockard Channing in Alexi Kaye Campbell's dinner party drama.
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Guildford Shakespeare Company's 12th open-air season begins with a sunny, swinging sixties take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. This site-responsive show is
Creative Cow's touring show of Graham Greene's comic spy novel Our Man in Havana is slickly staged. Like their previous revival of
Lacks real poignancy: The flaws in this little-performed Tennessee Williams are exposed in Jonathan Kent's laboured production, says Neil Dowden.
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First staged in 2003, Debbie Tucker Green's Dirty Butterfly is not an easy play to watch. Its subject of domestic abuse, and
TW Robertson was a pioneering playwright and director who helped to modernise mid-Victorian theatre by bringing a new quality of realism to
Moira Buffini's delightful Olivier-winning comedy Handbagged imagines what may have happened in the weekly meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and prime minister
