Category: National Theatre

Posted in Duncan Macmillan National Theatre Theatre West End

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…

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Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, National Theatre

“This is an empty world without the blues“ The title might be something of a misnomer in…

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How-could-it-be-a-review: The National Theatre Theatre Quiz 2015

“It’s from that play with lots of words…” My first ever trip to the institution that is…

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2016 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James McAvoy, The Ruling Class Bradley…

Posted in Caryl Churchill National Theatre Theatre

Review: Here We Go, National Theatre

“Are those the pearly gates?”  Almost like buses, you wait for a new Caryl Churchill play and…

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Review: Evening at the Talk House, National Theatre

“You have to want to care what’s going to happen to these characters” There’s a sequence towards…

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Film Review: The Lady in the Van

“You wouldn’t see Harold Pinter pushing vans down the street” It is more than 15 years since…

Posted in Harley Granville Barker National Theatre Theatre

Review: Waste, National Theatre

“The stateman’s task is the accommodation of stubborn facts to shifting circumstance and in effect to the…