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Manchester theatre head: Easter warnings are ‘frightening’
“The big frustration is that it’s really difficult to find a logic in all of this,” says Roy Alexander Weise, joint artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, of the current situation facing his sector. Read my full … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, interview, manchester, play, racism, Roy Alexander Weise, royal exchange, telegraph, theatre, tier 3, tier 4
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Death of England: Delroy, National Theatre
Wednesday’s press performance was both opening and closing night at the National – their first show back curtailed by lockdown. Deeply frustrating, since Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s blistering new state-of-the-nation monologue is clearly the play for the moment. Read my full … Continue reading
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Tagged clint dyer, death of england, delroy, england, lockdown, michael balogun, national theatre, pandemic, play, race, racial, racism, review, roy williams, the i paper, theatre, windrush
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Interview: Sharon D Clarke
The actress discusses her role in musical Caroline, or Change. Read my full TodayTix interview here
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Tagged 1960s, african-american, america, black, book tickets, caroline or change, chichester festival theatre, civil rights, daniel evans, family, interview, jeanine tesori, maid, motown, musical, playhouse theatre, race, racism, sharon d clarke, singing, todaytix, tony kushner, west end
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Torn, Royal Court Theatre
Family is the ideal, the necessity, the burden and the war zone of Nathaniel Martello-White’s intricate new play, alternately elusive and confrontational. It’s group therapy – Ultz provides the community hall plastic chairs and tea table – with no safeguards, … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, black, broadwayworld, child, family, father, gay, mother, nathaniel martello-white, parent, poverty, race, racism, review, Richard Twyman, royal court, therapy, torn, white
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Red Velvet, Garrick Theatre
Lolita Chakrabarti’s impassioned debut has only gained topicality since its 2012 Tricycle incarnation. Trevor Nunn’s all-white Wars of the Roses and #OscarsSoWhite, among others, have fanned its flames, while quips about a paranoid Russian regime and the limits of English … Continue reading
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Tagged abolition, actor, adrian lester, backstage, black, cameron, drama, european referendum, garrick theatre, history, ira aldridge, kenneth branagh, london, oscars, oscarssowhite, othello, period drama, play, prejudice, race, racism, red velvet, review, slavery, theatre, theatre royal, tricycle theatre, trump, west end
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