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‘A bit of a muddle’: MIDDLE – National Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz9th May 2022Leave a Comment

David Eldridge’s trilogy about relationships, which started in 2017 with the hit show Beginning, now reaches its second part with Middle, which has opened at the National Theatre.

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‘This is easily Kit Harington’s finest career performance on stage or screen’: HENRY V – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott28th February 2022Leave a Comment

Henry V is the greatest war play ever written and is the template for all literary responses to conflict since produced.

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‘Haunting, both actual & metaphorical, is at its heart’: APPROPRIATE – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz2nd September 2019Leave a Comment

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Appropriate is a brilliantly acute and entertaining, if a bit depressing, deconstruction of the great American family drama.

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‘The past is never just the past’: APPROPRIATE – Donmar Warehouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott27th August 2019Leave a Comment

Jacobs-Jenkins explores how even fairly recent national history can be sanitised and reduced when examined from only one perspective in Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse.

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‘A masterpiece of contemporary new writing’: DEALING WITH CLAIR – Orange Tree Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz5th November 2018Leave a Comment

Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre is a brilliant revival of Martin Crimp’s savage satire on human greed and male attitudes to women.

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‘Nursing your disappointment with the lack of a climax’: THE PRUDES – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz27th April 2018Leave a Comment

There’s much to enjoy in The Prudes, an evening of wisdom and fun, directed by Anthony Neilson himself, and Jonjo O’Neill (James) and Sophie Russell (Jes) have great onstage empathy and excellent comic timing.

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‘All in all a bloody, good, Macbeth’: MACBETH – Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon ★★★★

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Jonathan Baz22nd March 2018Leave a Comment

An imaginatively staged take on The Scottish Play which, in its leading roles, is stunningly performed. All in all a bloody, good, Macbeth.

PARLIAMENT SQUARE – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz12th December 2017Leave a Comment

Kat is a young wife and mother, and Fritz tells her story in three episodes. The first, called Fifteen Seconds, shows her deciding to skip off work and, instead, board a train for London where she will douse her own body with petrol in Parliament Square and set herself alight.

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PARLIAMENT SQUARE – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz12th December 2017Leave a Comment

Kat is a young wife and mother, and Fritz tells her story in three episodes. The first, called Fifteen Seconds, shows her deciding to skip off work and, instead, board a train for London where she will douse her own body with petrol in Parliament Square and set herself alight.

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BEGINNING – National Theatre & West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz15th November 2017Leave a Comment

It’s about three in the morning on a Saturday night in the living room of a one-bedroom flat in Crouch End. Laura is a 38-year-old managing director, and it’s the tail end of her housewarming party.

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THE WINTER’S TALE – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin19th February 2017Leave a Comment

Lucid and engaging, the Lyceum’s Scottish-set production of The Winter’s Tale has much to recommend it, even if it does not quite convince.

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