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Tag Archives: hampstead
Savagely powerful play takes us inside dementia
At its best, theatre doesn’t just communicate ideas or invite distanced empathy. It completely immerses us in the experience of another human being. Florian Zeller won France’s top drama prize, the Molière Award, for 2014 play The Father, and Christopher … Continue reading
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Tagged alzheimers, care, carer, christopher hampton, claire skinner, daughter, dementia, drama, family, father, florian zeller, france, french, ham and high, hampstead, highgate, kenneth cranham, king lear, london, paris, pinter, play, review, the father, theatre, tricycle theatre
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Flawed but urgent look at British Islam
Actor-turned-playwright John Hollingworth’s debut isn’t so much ripped from the headlines as startlingly prescient. Developed four years before the Paris attacks and Jihadi John’s gruesome antics, Multitudes tackles immigration, Islamic conversion and multicultural discord with a passion that fires up … Continue reading
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Tagged bradford, community, conservative, conversion, drama, east is east, ham and high, hampstead, hampstead and highgate express, immigration, Indhu Rubasingham, is, isis, islam, islamic state, jihadi john, london, multicultural, multitudes, newsnight, nigel farage, north london, pakistan, paris, party conference, play, political, religion, review, spin doctor, syria, the thick of it, theatre, tory, tricycle theatre, ukip
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School of hard knocks
Writing is not a spectator sport. Theresa Rebeck’s wryly cynical 2011 play sets out to disprove that fact by focussing on the hoopla surrounding the act of putting pen to paper, from battling personal demons to the grim pragmatism of … Continue reading
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Tagged alan rickman, america, book, charity wakefield, class, drama, hampstead, hampstead theatre, hollywood, literary, london, new york, novel, novelist, play, review, roger allam, seminar, student, tamara drewe, teacher, terry johnson, theatre, theresa rebeck, writer, writing
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Comedy about lesbians’ quest for a child needs to be more daring
How enlightened are we when it comes to unconventional families? Ben Ockrent’s topical piece suggests there are variations that still have the power to shock, but Breeders, though frank and funny, is ultimately too nice to do its provocative subject … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Griffin, baby, breeders, child, conception, drama, family, gay, ham and high, hampstead, highgate, homosexual, ivf, Jemima Rooper, lesbian, london, mother, parent, parenting, pop song, review, sperm donor, st james theatre, sweden, swedish, tamara harvey, Tamzin Outhwaite, theatre, vicky graham, victoria
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McCrory magnetic in an electrifying production
It’s an “unthinkable” crime, yet all too fathomable in Carrie Cracknell’s electrifying production of Medea. Her modern setting for Euripides’ masterpiece is unobtrusive, allowing the discomfort that comes from viewing horror in a familiar setting to creep upon us during … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient greece, argonauts, carrie cracknell, children, dance, drama, euripides, fates, golden fleece, goldfrapp, greek tagedy, ham and high, hampstead, helen mccrory, jason, london, medea, mother, murder, myth, national theatre, review, theatre
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Theatre company defends culture in dark times
Reviewers like to believe we have power of influence, but those in Stalinist Russia had power of life and death: a bad write-up spelled doom for the subject. Yet their opinions could not contradict those of the ‘great leader’, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-seminitism, david schneider, ham and high, hampstead, jew, jewish, jw3, kafka, king lear, london, making stalin laugh, moscow, Moscow State Yiddish Theatre, play, purges, review, russia, shakespeare, shostakovich, stalin, theatre, ussr, yiddish
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Meeting of love rivals needs to be spikier
In 1999, Amy Rosenthal (daughter of Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman) won the Sunday Times Drama Award for Henna Night, an incisive 50-minute piece. This lucid revival does justice to its refreshingly perceptive take on female relationships, although its limitations are … Continue reading
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Tagged amy rosenthal, drama, ham and high, hampstead, henna, henna night, jack rosenthal, london, love, maureen lipman, new diorama theatre, play, review, sunday times, the odd couple, theatre
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Thought-provoking encounter with a killer
Are those who commit atrocities inhuman? It’s reassuring to put distance between ourselves and these ‘monsters’, but no such comfort in Nicholas Wright’s riveting, must-see A Human Being Died That Night at the Hampstead. Evil has a name, and a face, … Continue reading
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Tagged a human being died that night, apartheid, drama, eugene de kock, ham and high, hampstead, hampstead theatre, hannibal, killer, london, mandela, murder, Nicholas Wright, play, prison, review, silence of the lambs, south africa, theatre, truth and reconciliation commission
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Solid Miller is lacking darkness
‘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
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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
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