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Leopoldstadt, Wyndham’s Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s latest – and possibly final – play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality. Instead, we have a relatively straightforward, linear … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, ed stoppard, family, holocaust, jew, jewish, leopoldstadt, nazi, patrick marber, play, review, ticket deal, tom stoppard, vienna, west end, wyndhams theatre
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The Patriotic Traitor, Park Theatre
Theatregoers suffering from First World War fatigue may want to pass on Jonathan Lynn’s merely competent historical drama about two mythic figures: Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Pétain. It’s a fascinating subject – de Gaulle had his former mentor tried … Continue reading
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Tagged army, Charles de Gaulle, collaborator, drama, first world war, general, history, jonathan lynn, laurence fox, leader, london, nazi, park theatre, Philippe Petain, play, review, second world war, the patriotic traitor, theatre, tom conti, verdun, vichy, war, world war one, world war two
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Moderate Soprano is a moderate success
Following Farinelli and the King, here’s another gently aimless drama about opera and – more circuitously – the inestimable value of art. David Hare takes us back to 1934 and the birth of Glyndebourne, with Rae Smith’s design illustrating its … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hare, drama, germany, glyndebourne, ham and high, hampstead theatre, jeremy herrin, jewish, london, music, musician, nazi, opera, play, review, roger allam, second world war, the moderate soprano, theatre, war
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A Bright Room Called Day, Southwark Playhouse
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
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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
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Mostly build-up…debatable climax
“How long do you intend to draw this out?” So enquires German philosopher Adorno of his student-turned-extorter, who claims to possess the material influential academic Walter Benjamin smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Paris shortly before his death. Yet the question could … Continue reading
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Tagged adorno, carl djerassi, foreplay, german, germany, hannah Arendt, islington, islington gazette, kings head theatre, london, nazi, north london, philosophy, porn, pub, review, science, the pill, theatre, walter benjamin, war
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The writing’s on the wall
“It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction,” proclaimed The New York Times Book Review of American author Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s 1938 epistolary novella Address Unknown. Seventy-five years later, her work still packs a powerful punch in the form of … Continue reading
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Tagged address unknown, america, austerity, bnp, book, drama, economic downturn, edl, edward snowden, germany, hitler, holocaust, jazz, jew, letter, london, murder, nazi, new york times, novel, opera, play, recession, saki, second world war, soho theatre, surveillance, theatre, world world two
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A womb of one’s own
It’s not often you find yourself sympathising with both Communist and Nazi social policy, but that’s the unusual position one might be forced to take when viewing the compelling A Time to Reap at the Royal Court. Burgeoning Polish playwright … Continue reading
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Tagged a time to reap, abortion, america, brideshead revisited, catholic, communist, debate, drama, election, europe, international woman's day, law, london, nazi, play, poland, royal court, socialism, the end of the affair, theatre, vote
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