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Arts TheatreDominyka MorkvenaiteJuly 8, 2017September 13, 2017

Taha at the Young Vic

The vivid story of the turbulent life of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is recounted to an intimate audience within Taha.

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Arts TheatreEmma BradleyJune 7, 2017September 1, 2017

Common at the Olivier, National Theatre

Rufus Norris, artistic director of the National Theatre, has made a commitment to increase the volume of new work across the National’s three stages. Common by DC Moore follows the disappointing Salomé onto the largest and most difficult stage, the Olivier.

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Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Globe
Arts Editor's Picks TheatreEmma BradleyMay 25, 2017September 1, 2017

Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe

Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of the Globe Theatre, is no stranger to pushing boundaries and courting the controversy that comes with creativity – and Twelfth Night is no different.

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Angels in America
Arts Editor's Picks TheatreEmma BradleyMay 5, 2017September 1, 2017

Angels in America

To say the National Theatre’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America has been hotly anticipated, is an understatement. It was an instant sell out and boasts a heavy weight, award winning team. The play is divided into two parts – The Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. So, does the 7-hour double bill live up to…

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Jan Versweyveld
Arts TheatreMatt NeubauerApril 28, 2017September 24, 2017

Obsession

Obsession is the second of three plays as part of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s residency at the Barbican – a follow-up to the exceptional revival of Roman Tragedies earlier this year.

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Jan Versweyveld
Arts Editor's Picks TheatreMatt NeubauerMarch 18, 2017September 24, 2017

Roman Tragedies – Toneelgroep Amsterdam

The jagged concrete outline of the Barbican Centre, in all its brutalist glory, lends itself fittingly to my mood as I enter – it is hard not to wince, at least subconsciously, at the prospect of six hours of Shakespearean text to be performed sequentially and without interval, in a language you do not speak.…

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Snow in Midsummer
Arts Editor's Picks TheatreThe Panoptic TeamMarch 3, 2017September 6, 2017

Snow in Midsummer

Gun shots. Blood smatters against a fluttering white flag. A young woman lay limp and lifeless. The execution is done. Returning their rifles to an upright position, three soldiers march toward the body. Without courtesy, the woman is hoisted to a sitting position. In a remarkable show of disrespect, one of the soldiers casually wields…

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Arts TheatreThe Panoptic TeamFebruary 3, 2017December 11, 2017

The White Devil – Shakespeare’s Globe

Runs until 16th April in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Annie Ryan’s production of The White Devil plunges the audience into a dark and twisted dystopian world of lust and revenge where justice is ‘ravished’ and no one can be trusted. The Wanamaker is the perfect location for the intimacy and gore of Webster’s revenge tragedy.…

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Arts TheatreAnonymousJanuary 28, 2017September 24, 2017

Daddy’s Girl – Vault Festival

Georgia Brown’s debut play Daddy’s Girl was a heart-warming vignette of two people trapped in very different circumstances. Eliza (Georgia Brown) is a millennial, struggling to figure out life from the confines of her room, while her dad, Terry (Mark Wingett), ‘Britain’s Most Dangerous Armed Robber’, has been locked away in prison for years. Reconnecting…

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Arts TheatreThe Panoptic TeamDecember 11, 2016December 11, 2017

The Seven Acts of Mercy – RSC

Runs until 10th February 2017 Anders Lustgarten’s new play, The Seven Acts of Mercy, was an overwhelmingly average performance. The storyline had all of the makings of a truly interesting script. The play begins in Naples, 1606, where Caravaggio (Patrick O’Kane) is working on his masterpiece ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’, funded by Marchese (Edmund…

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