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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Best of Enemies at the Young Vic Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon31st December 2021Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the world premiere James Graham’s latest political drama, Best of Enemies, now running at the Young Vic Theatre until 22 January 2022.

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‘A fine slice of time travel with an eye on contemporary political malaise’: BEST OF ENEMIES – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz27th December 2021Leave a Comment

James Graham’s latest history play has an eye on the present but a messy staging.

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‘A political fairy tale but one worth reading to your kids’: BEST OF ENEMIES – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon19th December 2021Leave a Comment

James Graham finds an analogue for today’s culture war in 1968 USA care of Gore Vidal and William F Buckley.

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‘An entertaining, instructive, questioning, honest play’: BEST OF ENEMIES – Young Vic Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Libby Purves12th December 2021Leave a Comment

James Graham’s mission might seem unfashionable: trawling 20th-century history and public culture, looking not for villains and heroes but for the nuances of human behaviour.

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‘James Graham asks interesting questions about public posturing versus private belief’: BEST OF ENEMIES – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott10th December 2021Leave a Comment

James Graham’s new play Best of Enemies takes us back to the 1960s, demonstrating that the roots of our division partially lay in the creation of televised intellectual debating.

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NEWS: New plays by Ben Okri & James Graham feature in the Young Vic’s new season

In London theatre, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases8th May 2021

Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced a new season of work, Welcome Back and Welcome Home, welcoming theatre-makers and audiences back through the doors for the first time since the venues’s 50th Birthday celebrations in October 2020.

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NEWS: Theatremakers from all four nations are celebrated in The Stage 100 list

In London theatre, Native, News, Online shows, Press Releases, Regional theatre by Press Releases7th January 2021

The Stage has unveiled its annual The Stage 100 list. The list has been re-imagined this year to celebrate individuals who have gone above and beyond in helping theatre survive the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced.

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NEWS: James Graham, Alan Menken & Glenn Slater are adapting George Orwell’s Animal Farm into a new stage musical

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Press Releases by Press Releases7th December 2020

Multi award-winning playwright James Graham is collaborating with Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater to create a new musical based on George Orwell’s iconic novel Animal Farm.

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‘Has an intimacy redolent of Graham’s earlier works’: BUBBLE – Nottingham Playhouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Maryam Philpott27th October 2020Leave a Comment

One of the highest profile events in Nottingham Playhouse’s Unlocked Festival was Bubble, a hybrid production, performed in-house and live streamed over the weekend to a potential international audience – a new James Graham comedy about life in lockdown.

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NEWS: A new play from James Graham will feature in Nottingham Playhouse’s reopening season

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Regional theatre by Press Releases8th September 2020

A line-up including a new work from playwright James Graham will feature in Nottingham Playhouse Unlocked, Nottingham Playhouse’s three-week reopening season which runs from 21 October to 7 November 2020.

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‘We’ve shown we’re not going without a fight’: Who really cares about what has happened to the theatre industry?

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre by Emily Garside23rd August 2020Leave a Comment

I accidentally wrote a viral tweet. It came out of a moment of possibly ill-thought frustration. Out of feeling brushed aside, dismissed one too many times. But wow did that tweet resonate.

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‘These short pieces will provide valuable testimony for what people got up to in the great pandemic’: UNPRECEDENTED – Headlong Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman18th June 2020Leave a Comment

Life as it is currently lived in 14 playlets: Most of the plays are about ten minutes in duration and punch well above their weight featuring writing by the likes of James Graham and April de Angelis.

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Parliamentary power plays: Considering This House & other recent political dramas (not just by James Graham!)

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays by Maryam Philpott4th June 2020Leave a Comment

When it was first performed in 2012 James Graham’s This House was an affectionate satire, using its 1970s setting to examine the still young Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government formed in 2010.

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‘It is immediately clear how prescient it was’: THIS HOUSE – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Tom Bolton2nd June 2020Leave a Comment

The chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.

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‘Power is shown to be almost totally male-dominated’: THIS HOUSE – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman31st May 2020Leave a Comment

The plotline of James Graham play covers several years during a period when majorities were slim and politics was a brutal business.

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NEWS: Industry leaders launch coordinated effort to lobby for government support & welcome new taskforce

In Native, News, Press Releases, Video by Press Releases22nd May 2020

The theatre industry’s fightback was raised to a new level as, after more than two months of enforced venue closures, leaders coordinated efforts to pressure the government for further support, and DCMS appointed a new commissioner for Cultural Recovery.

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NEWS: National Theatre at Home screens Tom Hiddleston’s Coriolanus & A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson

In London theatre, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases7th May 2020

The National Theatre has announced its third tranche of archive shows that will be streamed every Thursday at 7pm BST via its YouTube channel as part of lockdown initiative National Theatre at Home.

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10 wish-list productions for future National Theatre At Home screenings

In Broadway, Features, London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays by Debbie Gilpin9th April 2020Leave a Comment

Following on from the instant success of National Theatre At Home streaming event, it’s got me thinking about all the other wonderful NT Live screenings that I’d love to come to the small screen as part of this series. I have narrowed it down to my top 10.

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NEWS: Headlong & Century Films announce major new digital series of short plays

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases24th March 2020

Award-winning theatre company Headlong, in association with the BAFTA-winning Century Films, have announced Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre From a State of Isolation, a major new digital project, bringing together celebrated playwrights to create a series of short digital plays, as a response to the current global crisis.

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NEWS: Elton John, Sam Mendes, Natasha Gordon, James Graham & Giles Terera feature in the New Year Honours List

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Press Releases28th December 2019

Elton John, Sam Mendes, Christopher Hampton, Natasha Gordon, James Graham, Giles Terera and Stephen Mear are among the list of theatre and showbusiness luminaries who feature in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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