National Theatre
Rutherford and Son – Review
| May 30, 2019
There’s not a scrap of love in this house! It’s intolerable. Githa Sowerby used her own upbringing as the daughter of a Tyneside glass-making family for her breakthrough
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Small Island – Review
| May 5, 2019
They fought for their ‘mother country’ yet the Windrush generation, who came to Britain from Jamaica to seek a better lives for themselves, were treated like the enemy.
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Top Girls – Review
| April 8, 2019
Back in 1982 Helen Gurley Brown, then editor of US Cosmopolitan, informed the world that women could “have it all”. As if, in an act of defiance, in
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Hadestown – Review
| November 19, 2018
Hadestown’s journey onto the stage of the National Theatre – and, indeed, its upcoming transfer to Broadway – has been as tortuous and precarious as the story it
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Review – Nine Night
| May 2, 2018
The British way of coping with death generally involves a degree of sadness, black clothing and a period of mourning. But, after watching Natasha Gordon’s heartfelt debut play,
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Review – Absolute Hell
| April 27, 2018
Do you mind not breathing down my neck and fingering my bottom? Rodney Ackland’s great disappointment, his ill-timed 1952 play, The Pink Room, is given another chance at
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