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Telegraph articles
I spent a fantastic six months as a cultural commissioning editor and regular writer at the Telegraph. I hope to migrate all those articles across at some point, but for now you can find them at my author page here
Constellations, Vaudeville Theatre
In 2012, playwright Nick Payne dazzled audiences with his fiendishly clever play that merges relationship drama with theories about quantum mechanics, superstrings, and the multiverse. Now it’s back in the West End. Read my full London Theatre review here
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Tagged constellations, doctor who, drama, london, nick payne, peter capaldi, play, review, sheila atim, theatre, vaudeville theatre, west end, zoe wanamaker
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: ‘Theatres had to close, but the vaccine will make things dramatically better’
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who famously took part in a trial for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, was delighted to hear that it’s been approved for use in the UK. “It’s great news. I’m thrilled. Everybody was pretty optimistic about it earlier in the … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew lloyd webber, cinderella, composer, drama, interview, london, musical, oxford vaccine, play, telegraph, theatre, trial, vaccination, vaccine, west end
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BWW Interview: Alice Hamilton
The director talks helming Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre – and how it chimes with Covid times. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged alice hamilton, broadwayworld, director, drama, hampstead theatre, harold pinter, interview, london, play, the dumb waiter, theatre
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Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon, Original Theatre Online
It’s 50 years since the near-fatal Apollo 13 mission, and 25 years since the Tom Hanks-led movie of “Houston, we have a problem” fame. Now, the Original Theatre Company brings us Torben Betts’s new one-hour online play, pegged to our “age of … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo 13, astronaut, civil rights, digital, drama, online, original theatre, play, review, space race, the dark side of the moon, the i paper, the moon, theatre
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Drawing the Line, Hampstead Theatre online
This week’s gem from the Hampstead’s vaults is Howard Brenton’s political drama from 2013, telling the extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story of Cyril Radcliffe and his 1947 mission: to arrange the Partition of India in just five weeks. A tale of battling ideologies, gross colonial arrogance and disregard, … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, clement attlee, cyril radcliffe, digital, drama, drawing the line, empire, free, hampstead theatre, hindhu, history, Howard Brenton, india, mountbatten, muslim, nehru, online, pakistan, partition of india, play, review, stream, streaming, theartsdesk, theatre, video, watch
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I and You, Hampstead Theatre
Now streaming online, this YA play is oddly pertinent. Head to Instagram for a 2018 production with plenty of 2020 shutdown wisdom. Read my full theartsdesk review here
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Tagged coronavirus, drama, edward hall, free, game of thrones, hampstead theatre, home schooling, i and you, IGTV, instagram, lauren gunderson, maisie williams, online, play, poem, poetry, review, shutdown, streaming, teenager, theartsdesk, theatre, walt whitman, YA, young adult, Zach Wyatt
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The Visit, National Theatre
Three years after the National’s enthralling revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s tragicomic 1956 parable – which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical. … Continue reading
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Tagged book tickets, broadwayworld, drama, hugo weaving, lesley manville, london, national theatre, play, review, the visit, tony kushner
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