Tag: off west end play
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The York Realist @ Donmar Warehouse
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.donmarwarehouse.com/production/6395/the-york-realist/ Cover photo by: Johan Persson After finding success in previous Donmar productions including My Night With Reg & Splendour, director Robert Hastie returns with a revival of Peter Gill’s 2001 play The York Realist. Set in a Yorkshire cottage in the 1960s, the play focuses on George and the relationship…
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Dust @ Soho Theatre*
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/dust/ Production photos by: The Other Richard Running until: 17th March. TW: Suicide After being dubbed as the next Phoebe Waller-Bridge, its easy to see why after watching this expertly written solo play Dust at the Soho Theatre. Milly Thomas stars as Alice, a young girl who has just committed suicide.…
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Mad As Hell @ Jermyn Street Theatre*
Rating: Running until: 24th February 2018 Tickets and more information: http://www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/mad-as-hell/ Production Photos by: Eddie Otchere As the National Theatre plays home to a stage adaptation of the Oscar winning Network, in Piccadilly is the small Jermyn Street Theatre which is currently home to a play about the Oscar winning actor who starred in the original…
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3 Hidden Off West End Theatres
Last week, I was kindly invited to review three shows at three off West End theatres that I hadn’t visited before. I’m always up for finding new theatres to visit, particularly theatres that specialise in new writing and giving a platform to plays that haven’t been performed on UK soil. Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 @…
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Strangers In Between @ Trafalgar Studios 2
The King’s Head Theatre concludes their West End season with Tommy Murphy’s three-hander play Strangers In Between. Set in Australia, the play is about Shane who has fled his hometown to leave his troubled family behind. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, has directed an excellent coming of age comedy about…
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The Twilight Zone @ Almeida Theatre
Based on the hit series which premiered on CBS in 1959 and ran for five seasons containing 156 episodes, The Twilight Zone a science-fiction anthology series set in a fifth dimension of space and time. Going into the play I knew very little about the background But what I was intrigued most by the production…
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PREVIEW | Tiny Dynamite @ Old Red Lion Theatre
No, that P in the title isn’t a typo. Today I’m bringing you a preview of Tiny Dynamite that will be running at the Old Red Lion Theatre from the 9th January to the 3rd February 2018. The play is written by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan. Her previous credits on the big screen…
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Insignificance @ Arcola Theatre
Insignificance is a play by Terry Johnson which takes place in one hotel room across the 2 hour run time. It’s a play about the effects of fame, what it means to be famous and how does it affect relationships. The characters are listed in the programme as The Actress/The Professor/The Senator/The Ball player so…
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Saint George and the Dragon @ the National Theatre
Saint George and the Dragon is a new play by Rory Mullarkey that takes the Patron Saint of England and rewrites the folk tale. The National website describes the play as a “folk tale for an uneasy nation”, which I think is spot on, particularly in the times of Brexit. As Saint George continues to…
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Thebes Land @ the Arcola Theatre
After much acclaim in 2016, Daniel Goldman directs his hit adaptation of Sergio Blanco’s play back at the Arcola Theatre as part of the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival which celebrates theatre made by Latin American artists. Thebes Land follows a playwright is trying to stage a play he has written based on a young…
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