It is tempting to think that this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play Apologia was mooted simply so that the above line could get the laughs it richly deserves for its prescience. As it is, Jamie Lloyd has fashioned it into the vehicle that has tempted Stockard Channing back into the West End for the first time in 25 years.
APOLOGIA – West End
I remember Apologia from its first time around, at the Bush Theatre. Then it seemed an extraordinarily acute if honest rebuke to those women of the 1960s and ‘70s.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Apologia at Trafalgar Studios
Stockard Channing and Laura Carmichael star in Jamie Lloyd’s new West End production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 1999 play Apologia. Here is what critics have been saying about it.
APOLOGIA – West End
The 1960s were “hilarious”, says one young character in this revival, starring Broadway icon Stockard Channing, of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 family drama at the Trafalgar Studios. How so? “Oh you know, the clothes, the hair, the raging idealism.”
APOLOGIA – West End
There’s more than a touch of Bette Davis in The Anniversary in this Jamie Lloyd-directed version of Alexei Kaye Campbell’s acidulated family drama Apologia, now lightly Americanised to suit the talents of Stockard Channing.
NEWS: Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael completes the cast of Apologia, TICKETS ON SALE
Final casting has been announced for Apologia, which will begin previews on 29th July at Trafalgar Studios. Laura Carmichael will join previously announced Tony and Emmy award winner Stockard Channing, Freema Agyeman, Joseph Millson and Olivier Award winner Desmond Barrit in a new production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s darkly funny and haunting play about family and its secrets, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
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NEWS: Sense8 star Freema Agyeman joins Stockard Channing in Apologia, TICKETS ONSALE
No apologies here, as further casting has now been announced for Apologia: Doctor Who and Sense8 star Freema Agyeman, Olivier Award-winner Desmond Barritt and Joseph Millson join Stockard Channing.