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Tag Archives: National Theatre

Pass me my pitchfork: D.C. Moore’s Common, National Theatre

“You are blight and darkness and sin…” Lost village girl Mary comes home to her beloved Laura after a lifetime of sin in “that devil-town London”, but finds – well…

June 6, 2017 in Theatre.

THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY, National Theatre, SE1

Patrick Marber has taken Turgenev’s A Month in the Country and strengthened it in all directions, rather like an enthusiast restoring an aged, leaky old boat into a seaworthy thing…

July 29, 2015 in Theatre.

Bloody politics: 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić, for TheatreCat.com

3 Winters takes us to the beautiful old Kos family house in Zagreb, Croatia, in three different years: 1945, 1990, and 2011. In a series of the slickest scene changes…

December 4, 2014 in Theatre.

3 Winters review for London Theatre Guide

Croatia’s recent political history, nicely summarised for us in the 3 Winters programme (but even then, it takes three closely-typed pages) makes Northern Ireland look like a squabble at a…

December 4, 2014 in Theatre.

Medea – for London Theatre Guide

Among the many horror stories told by the Greek tragedians, Euripides’ Medea is often cited as one of the most horrifying: the mother who kills her children, going against her…

July 22, 2014 in Theatre.

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