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NEWS: Keith Allen & Bryan Dick will lead the cast of Rose Theatre’s double-bill Hogarth’s Progress

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases20th July 2018Leave a Comment

Rose Theatre Kingston has announced the full cast for Nick Dear’s double-bill Hogarth’s Progress. Anthony Banks directs Bryan Dick as the younger William Hogarth in the first major UK revival of Dear’s The Art of Success, and Keith Allen as the older William Hogarth in the world première of The Taste of the Town.

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‘A rollicking good romcom’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Anne Cox13th June 2018Leave a Comment

The Two Noble Kinsmen is a fun-filled boisterous romp that’s worth sticking with. It might not make much sense but there are some outstanding performances and flashes of Barrie Rutter’s famously fresh, unstuffy, unorthodox direction.

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‘Dear Barrie Rutter. Come again to the Globe, do’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Libby Purves8th June 2018Leave a Comment

Barrie Rutter and the Globe are made for each other. Fresh out of his storming leadership with Northern Broadsides, he returns here under the new regime, this time as director of a pretty ridiculous Shakespeare collaboration with John Fletcher, loosely based on Chaucer.

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‘As much entertainment as food for thought’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin1st June 2018Leave a Comment

A welcome performance of a lesser-known play, providing as much entertainment as food for thought – the music and dance are real highlights.

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NEWS: Matt Henry makes his Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Barrie Rutter’s production of The Two Noble Kinsmen

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases16th April 2018Leave a Comment

Olivier Award winner for musical Kinky Boots, Matt Henry will make his Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Barrie Rutter’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, opening in The Globe on 25 May (press night is 30 May).

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‘What if humans weren’t the dominant species?’: GREAT APES – Arcola Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin21st March 2018Leave a Comment

Great Apes at the Arcola Theatre is a fascinating play that is both wildly entertaining and extremely thought-provoking.

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FATHERLAND – Manchester International Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Manchester, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Kristy Stott14th July 2017Leave a Comment

Fatherland has been described as a verbatim piece, though it is unclear how much the stories have been edited to fit the trio’s own agenda.

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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster2nd February 2017Leave a Comment

This particular ‘new town’ was designed to rehouse the overspill population from the poorer parts of Liverpool but the forced creation of new communities is rarely so simple as that, and it is this impact that McLean explores here, by following the thread of a 30 year friendship.

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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

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

The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he’s come to see his mother, Hazel, who migrated to Britain from Ireland because she was an unmarried mother.

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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz1st February 2017Leave a Comment

New play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.

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NEWS: Keith Allen & Bryan Dick will lead the cast of Rose Theatre’s double-bill Hogarth’s Progress

‘A rollicking good romcom’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

‘Dear Barrie Rutter. Come again to the Globe, do’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

‘As much entertainment as food for thought’: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

NEWS: Matt Henry makes his Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Barrie Rutter’s production of The Two Noble Kinsmen

‘What if humans weren’t the dominant species?’: GREAT APES – Arcola Theatre ★★★★

FATHERLAND – Manchester International Festival

YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre503

YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

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