Tag: Martin Chamberlain

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Review: Waste, National Theatre

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

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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: Timon of Athens, National Theatre

“We have seen better days” Relevance. From the moment that Timon of Athens was announced as part of…

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Review: Antigone, National Theatre

“When things must be, they will be” Though the prospect of a different kind of Greek tragedy…

Posted in Mike Bartlett National Theatre Theatre Top plays of 2011

Review: 13, National Theatre

“Over the last year, it feels like it’s all falling apart…in this country…across the world…” Mike Bartlett…

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Re-review: Frankenstein, National Theatre

“Why did you make me?” Perhaps one of the less-successful decisions I have made this year was…

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Review: Frankenstein, National Theatre

“Please do not be inconsistent, I find it infuriating” Perhaps the first big theatre ‘event’ of the…

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Re-Review: The Habit of Art, National Theatre

“I don’t prey on boys…” Given how much theatre I like to get to see, it is…

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Review: The Habit of Art, National Theatre

“I want to hear about the failings of great men” The Habit of Art is Alan Bennett’s…