Category: National Theatre

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2014 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud  Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the NT…

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Review: Emil and the Detectives, National Theatre

“No-one has time for other people’s troubles in a city” It’s a rare occasion that I get…

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Review: From Morning to Midnight, National Theatre

“Well, that was a bit odd” Sometimes, one knows from the first moments of a show that…

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Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

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Review: The World of Extreme Happiness, The Shed

“A boy is a child, a girl is a thing” Given that around about this time last…

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Review: The Light Princess, National Theatre

“You are, you are…Althea, you are…changing the world for me” Long awaited and long gestated, Tori Amos…

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(P)review – The Light Princess, National Theatre

Any thought that I might have attended The Critics’ Circle Centenary Conference were immediately quashed when I…

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Review: Edward II, National Theatre

“I will have Gaveston, and you shall know what danger ’tis to stand against your king” Now…

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Review: Liolà, National Theatre

“This is a potato party”  Expectations are a funny thing. Luigi Pirandello’s reputation as one of our…