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Kit Harington, Glenn Close and Timothy Spall Lead April’s Top 10 New London Shows
From Jamie Lloyd’s reinvention of Marlowe’s Faustus and Glenn Close’s Norma Desmond to Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winner and a new heist farce, here are some of this month’s most eye-catching openings. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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The Truth, Menier Chocolate Factory
Infidelity, hypocrisy, disillusionment, betrayal – and yet this is by far the lightest of French playwright Florian Zeller’s current London hat trick. Premiering in 2011, and thus sandwiched chronologically between the bleak pair of The Mother (2010) andThe Father (2012), … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, alexander hanson, betrayal, christopher hampton, drama, florian zeller, lie, lindsay posner, london, love, marriage, menier chocolate factory, pinter, play, review, sex, the arts desk, the truth, theartsdesk, theatre, truth
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The Mother, Tricycle Theatre
Anne longs for 23-year-old son Nicholas to return home. One night, he appears. Or does he? Welcome back to the queasily elliptical world of Florian Zeller, where certainty fractures as familiar elements are repeated, dissected, made strange and menacing. Zeller … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, child, christopher hampton, depression, drama, empty nest, father, florian zeller, gina mckee, london, mental illness, mother, mum, parent, pinter, play, review, son, the arts desk, the father, the mother, theartsdesk, theatre, theatre royal bath, tricycle theatre
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Hangmen, Wyndham’s Theatre
Just what constitutes reasonable behaviour in an enlightened society? Not long ago, the death penalty fell under that umbrella in Britain, and state-sanctioned killing as punishment for the crime of, well, killing is just the kind of twisted irony that … Continue reading
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Tagged capital punishment, crime, david morrissey, death, drama, farce, hang, hanged, hangmen, johnny flynn, justice, london, martin mcdonagh, murder, oldham, pierrepoint, pinter, play, pub, review, royal court, sixties, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, west end
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The Homecoming, Trafalgar Studios
Welcome to the hellmouth. In Jamie Lloyd’s startling 50th anniversary revival, the seething, primal hinterland of Pinter’s domestic conflict is made flesh: the metal cage surrounding an innocuous living room glows a devilish red, sulphur-like smoke belches from the ether, … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s, brother, drama, family, father, gary kemp, gemma chan, gender, hackney, horror, jamie lloyd, john simm, keith allen, london, mother, pinter, play, review, ron cook, sex, sixties, the arts desk, the homecoming, theartsdesk, theatre, trafalgar studios, violence, west end, wife
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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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The Father, Tricycle Theatre
André is losing time. It’s not just his perennially mislaid watch, but whole hours, weeks, years. Is he still living in his Paris flat, or did he move in with his daughter Anne? Is she married, divorced, leaving the country … Continue reading
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The American nightmare
“What kinda people kill each other most? Family people.” Buttoned-up screenwriter Austin (Eugene O’Hare), housesitting for his mother, and estranged brother Lee (Alex Ferns), a petty thief belligerently mythologising his drifter existence, embody the dangerous intensity of blood bond from … Continue reading
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Tagged america, american dream, brother, california, drama, family, film, ham and high, hollywood, kilburn, london, movie, north london, picasso, pinter, play, review, sam shepard, screenplay, screenwriter, tricycle theatre, true west
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