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BWW Interview: Dawn Sievewright
The actress discusses the West End transfer of hit show Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged alan warner, broadwayworld, choir, dawn sievewright, edinburgh, girls, interview, lee hall, music, our ladies of perpetual succour, scotland, singing, teenager, vicky featherstone, west end
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Speech & Debate, Trafalgar Studios
The misfits shall inherit the earth. This enjoyably offbeat play from Stephen Karam (whose The Humans won the Tony for Best Play last year) opened Off-Broadway a decade ago, but the arrival of a film adaptation in April is a … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged broadwayworld, douglas booth, gay, london, musical, patsy ferran, review, school, sex, speech and debate, stephen karam, student, teenager, the crucible, tom attenborough, tony revlori, trafalgar studios, west end
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre
“This is our show,” proclaims one of the musically angelic but devilishly foul-mouthed convent schoolgirls descending on Edinburgh for a choir competition. And by God it is. A cracking ensemble of six plays the vividly drawn gang, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged alan warner, broadwayworld, catholic, choir, coming of age, convent, edinburgh, electric light orchestra, girl, lee hall, martin lowe, music, national theatre, our ladies of perpetual succour, play, review, school, scotland, sex, singing, song, teenager, the sopranos, theatre, vicky featherstone
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Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Trafalgar Studios
Teenagers lie – that’s nothing new. But are the activities they’re concealing from anxious parents in this oversharing digital age more extreme, more likely to define their lives and those of the people around them? James Fritz’s 90-minute debut, the … Continue reading
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Tagged child, class, digital, drama, four minutes twelve seconds, gender, hampstead theatre, internet, parent, play, rape, revenge porn, review, school, sex, sex tape, technology, teenager, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, trafalgar studios, video, violence
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Martyr, Unicorn Theatre
Following a dangerously selective reading of a religious text, 15-year-old Benjamin has adopted a fundamentalist doctrine that espouses misogynist, homophobic and puritanical views and, at its extreme, violence. Neither his mum nor his teachers know how to handle him. The … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged atheism, atheist, bible, children, christian, crucifixion, drama, extremism, extremist, faith, fundamentalist, gay, god, homophobic, homosexual, kid, london, man, martyr, mother, muslim, parent, play, puberty, puritanical, quran, religion, religious, review, school, sex, sexist, teacher, teenager, theatre, unicorn theatre, vicar, violent, woman, young
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Ten great plays set in summer
To coincide with the opening of Three Days in The Country, Patrick Marber’s new adaption of Turgenev, I’ve rounded up 10 other great plays set in the summer, from bucolic romance and adolescent yearning to fiery conflict and family combustion. Read my … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a streetcar named desire, adaptation, adolescent, all my sons, american dream, arthur miller, august osage county, best, chekhov, child, childhood, comedy, court, drama, Eugene O’Neill, family, fourth of july, hay fever, heat, hot, independence day, jury, law, love, lust, magic, Mark Gatiss, may day, meryl streep, national theatre, noel coward, parent, patrick marber, play, romance, romeo and juliet, russia, russian, sex, shakespeare, simon russell beale, summer, summer solstice, sun, teenager, tennessee williams, the cherry orchard, theatre, three days in the country, top 10, tragedy, trial, turgenev, twelve angry men, young, youth
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Listed: Precocious Writers
Once upon a time… Storytelling is an integral part of all human cultures, and a central pillar of an enlightened education. Some children get the hang of it quickly – they are, as the phrase has it, natural storytellers. This … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anne frank, book, bronte, caitlin moran, child, children, daisy ashford, diary, dorothy straight, drama, how to build a girl, how to talk to girls, Jane Austen, john kennedy toole, kid, Malala Yousafzai, novel, novelist, play, playwright, published, royal court, teenager, the arts desk, the chronicles of narmo, the young visitors, theartsdesk, theatre, virginia woolf, writer, writing, young
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Ah, Wilderness!, Young Vic
Coming-of-age comedy, moonlit romance and a gentle folk soul: can this really be Eugene O’Neill? The master of darkness makes a surprising departure with semi-autobiographical 1933 work Ah, Wilderness!, which visits staple tropes – addiction, family strife, responsibility and regret … Continue reading
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Tagged ah wilderness, america, american, child, comedy, coming of age, connecticut, drama, Eugene O’Neill, family, folk, fourth of july, george mackay, janie dee, london, long days journey into night, Natalie Abrahami, parent, play, review, romance, socialist, swinburne, teenager, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, wilde, young vic
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Worthy but thin tale of broken Britain
Eighteen months on, and Ed Miliband is still intoning “Cost of living crisis” in the hope of persuading disillusioned voters that someone at Westminster understands their plight. Yet the gulf between rhetoric and experience seems ever widening, making art that … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, changing state, child, cost of living crisis, crime, drama, drugs, ed miliband, election, ethnic minority, hen and chickens, house, housing, islington, islington gazette, local council, london, low income, millennial, north london, parent, play, politician, politics, poverty, pregnancy, prison, race, review, riots, singing, statistics, talent contest, teenager, theatre, unemployment, westminster, young, youth
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