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Pressure Q&A video: How do you make weather charts onstage ‘not boring’? Leave it to David Haig

In Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Sticky, Touring, Video by Terri Paddock5th July 2018Leave a Comment

If you’d never heard of the James Stagg before David Haig‘s latest play Pressure, don’t feel bad: neither had he. The writer/star discussed this and much more at the post-show Q&A chaired by Terri Paddock.

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‘An unmissably beautiful piece of theatre’: PRESSURE – Park Theatre ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Jonathan Baz8th April 2018Leave a Comment

First seen in Edinburgh and Chichester in 2014, David Haig’s acclaimed Pressure finally arrives at London’s Park Theatre where it runs for a month or so before heading into the West End for a well-deserved transfer.

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‘Plenty of drama & intensity’: PRESSURE – Park Theatre ❤❤❤❤

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon7th April 2018Leave a Comment

Pressure has plenty of drama and intensity to make for a brilliant production – but could use some editing to sharpen the ending up more and to keep its focus. But it is undeniably a fascinating and gripping play to watch unfold.

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‘The strength is in the tension’: PRESSURE – Park Theatre

In Albums, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon6th April 2018Leave a Comment

Originally produced in Edinburgh and Chichester in 2014, Pressure is worth the four-year wait for London audiences. If you miss it at the Park then it is moving to the West End in June 2018, including a performance on the 74th anniversary of D-Day.

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‘A huge personal triumph for actor & writer David Haig’: PRESSURE – Park Theatre

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

With enormous compassion, David Haig weaves together a thrilling story that is both personal and political. Having done his research, he makes the gobbledygook of technical weather reports sound thrilling, and the arguments between the men under Pressure convincingly clear.

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THE CRUCIBLE – Edinburgh

In News, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin21st February 2016Leave a Comment

Exceptional clarity characterises the Lyceum’s production of The Crucible, whose focus on small details reaps rewards but does so at the expense of dramatic impact.

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A View From The Bridge

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Thom Dibdin29th April 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ Honourable:
A strange and mysterious 1950s New York is explored in the Consortium Theatre Company’s take on Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, but the production fails to completely convince.

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