Tag Archives: arthur miller

Take Five! Spend your tea break with Zoe Wanamaker

Posted on April 28, 2016 by mkmswain

As Elegy opens at Donmar Warehouse, here are five of Zoe Wanamaker’s indelible performances. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here Advertisements

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Ten great plays set in summer

Posted on July 28, 2015 by mkmswain

To coincide with the opening of Three Days in The Country, Patrick Marber’s new adaption of Turgenev, I’ve rounded up 10 other great plays set in the summer, from bucolic romance and adolescent yearning to fiery conflict and family combustion. Read my … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged 10, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a streetcar named desire, adaptation, adolescent, all my sons, american dream, arthur miller, august osage county, best, chekhov, child, childhood, comedy, court, drama, Eugene O’Neill, family, fourth of july, hay fever, heat, hot, independence day, jury, law, love, lust, magic, Mark Gatiss, may day, meryl streep, national theatre, noel coward, parent, patrick marber, play, romance, romeo and juliet, russia, russian, sex, shakespeare, simon russell beale, summer, summer solstice, sun, teenager, tennessee williams, the cherry orchard, theatre, three days in the country, top 10, tragedy, trial, turgenev, twelve angry men, young, youth | Leave a comment

Moody and modern Greek tragedy lacks emotional core

Posted on March 23, 2015 by mkmswain

The triumph of director Ivo van Hove’s revolutionary A View from the Bridge raised expectations sky-high for its successor: Sophocles’ enduring tragedy, starring French luminary Juliette Binoche. Yet this Antigone is frustratingly less than the sum of its illustrious parts. Read my full Islington Gazette review here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged a view from the bridge, anne carson, antigone, arthur miller, barbican, burial, civil war, death, drama, family, gods, greece, greek chorus, greek tragedy, islington gazette, ivo van hove, juliette binoche, king, kreon, london, malaysia airlines, mh17, pathos, play, review, sophocles, state, theatre | Leave a comment

A Bright Room Called Day, Southwark Playhouse

Posted on July 29, 2014 by mkmswain

The pivotal early 1930s period in which Herr Hitler overcame strong if fractured left-wing opposition should make for meaty drama, but the sluggish polemic currently occupying Southwark Playhouse will leave carnivorous viewers unsatiated. American playwright Tony Kusher is rightly celebrated … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged a bright room called day, aids, america, angels in america, arthur miller, berlin, brecht, communist, drama, germany, hitler, life of brian, london, monty python, nazi, new york, play, reagan, review, southwark playhouse, stalin, the arts desk, the crucible, theatre, tony kushner, trotsky | Leave a comment

Playing politics

Posted on July 26, 2014 by mkmswain

It seems almost unnecessary to criticise Tony Kushner’s insufferable polemic when he does so regularly within the text of A Bright Room Called Day. Characters rebuke one another for their “bad romantic posturing”, “elegant despair” and “carefully constructed but immobile” … Continue reading →

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Solid Miller is lacking darkness

Posted on May 30, 2014 by mkmswain

‘It’s gonna rain tonight,’ predicts All My Sons protagonist Joe Keller. As one, the Regent’s Park audience turned their gaze to a threatening sky. Thankfully, we were spared a deluge, but it highlighted a problem with this venue. Arthur Miller’s masterful study of corrosive … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged all my sons, america, arthur miller, drama, ham and high, hampstead, highgate, london, pilot, plane, play, rain, regents park, regents park open air, review, second world war, theatre, weather, world war two, ww2 | Leave a comment

Powerful tale lost as tensions evaporate in open air venue

Posted on May 29, 2014 by mkmswain

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged all my sons, arthur miller, chekhovs gun, crime, guilt, islington gazette, london, open air, plane, play, rain, regents park, review, second world war, theatre, war, weather, world war two, ww2 | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: arthur miller

Take Five! Spend your tea break with Zoe Wanamaker

Ten great plays set in summer

Moody and modern Greek tragedy lacks emotional core

A Bright Room Called Day, Southwark Playhouse

Playing politics

Solid Miller is lacking darkness

Powerful tale lost as tensions evaporate in open air venue

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