Category: National Theatre

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Review: The Plough and the Stars, National Theatre

“Choke a chicken” Gruelling Irish dramas seem to pop up with some regularity at the National and…

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Review: The Suicide, National Theatre

 “Everything was free” A late jaunt to the National to The Suicide, Suhayla El-Bushra’s fiercely contemporary updating…

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Review: The Deep Blue Sea, National Theatre

“My God, how I hate getting tangled up in other people’s emotions.” For such a enduringly magnificent…

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Review: Sunset at the Villa Thalia, National Theatre

“Something Greek sounds good” It’s the ideal isn’t it, shipping off to a Greek island to escape…

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Review: The Threepenny Opera, National Theatre

“There will be no moralising tonight” Whatever you think a national theatre should be for, I bloody…

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Review: The Flick, National Theatre

“Sometimes I worry that there’s something really, really wrong with me but that I’ll never know exactly…

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Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre

“Do you think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?” To think that just a…

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Re-review: People, Places and Things, Wyndham’s Theatre

“I want to live vividly” There’s something rather apposite about the rush to label Denise Gough’s performance…

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Review: Cleansed, National Theatre

“Felt it. Here. Inside. Here.” I think I have to admit to liking the idea of Katie…