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‘Marvellously inventive & thoroughly compelling’: BLINDNESS – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz20th August 2020Leave a Comment

Simon Stephens and Juliet Stevenson create a perfectly beautiful and haunting installation for our times in The Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse.

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’As vivid as anything you saw on stage 5 months ago’: BLINDNESS – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott13th August 2020Leave a Comment

Ben and Max Ringham’s work for Blindness is a masterpiece, a 70-minute performance that layers story, sound effects, music and lighting design to immerse the audience in a pandemic experience.

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NEWS: Donmar Warehouse will reopen temporarily with socially distanced sound installation featuring Juliet Stevenson

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes by Press Releases15th July 2020

The Donmar Warehouse is to reopen temporarily from 3 to 22 August 2020 with a socially distanced sound installation – Blindness, based on the dystopian novel by Nobel-prize winning José Saramago, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann.

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‘A kind of strange hybrid form’: THIRTY MILLION MINUTES (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman7th May 2020Leave a Comment

A life distilled to its essentials: 30 Million Minutes indicates the rough length of time that Dawn French had been alive at the time of her solo show recorded in its final incarnation in 2016.

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‘An absolute belter of a thriller’: ANNA – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Rachel Williams2nd June 2019Leave a Comment

ANNA is such a great little show. It’s a curiosity, certainly, and it is worth seeing for the technical bravado alone. But it’s also an absolute belter of a thriller too, something which I don’t think it’s getting enough credit for.

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‘The thriller aspects are definitely effective, if not the sense of history’: ANNA – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz25th May 2019Leave a Comment

Intriguing Cold War thriller Anna is thoroughly immersive, but lacks a convincing sense of historical reality.

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KILLER – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz2nd March 2017Leave a Comment

One of the reasons that Philip Ridley is the crown prince of imaginative playwriting is that he came at theatre from leftfield. In the 1980s, he didn’t go to drama school — he went to art college instead. This freed his mind from following established theatre conventions, and so anything was possible.

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KILLER – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz28th February 2017Leave a Comment

Latest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.

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RAZ – West End

In Edinburgh Festival, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th March 2016Leave a Comment

Jim Cartwright returns with a high-octane monologue about a night out, but has nothing to say beyond the banal.

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