Review: National Theatre Live: Present Laughter (2019)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 29 January 2020 Noël Coward may have written the comedy Present Laughter as a parody of his own…
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Review: National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 4 September 2019 In 2008 Lehman Brothers – the fourth largest investment bank in the USA – collapsed….
Review: National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2019)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 17 June 2019 Written in 1947, barely two years after the Second World War came to its fateful…
Review: National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 11 November 2018 When one of the finest actors of his generation leads in a play by the…
Film Review: Beast (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 10 September 2018 When a new writer/director’s first feature film is a team up with a largely unknown…
Review: National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 17 July 2018 I can only imagine how daunting it must be to contemplate adapting the Scottish play…
Review: National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 2 May 2018 Tennessee Williams’ play, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955, explores the nature of truth,…
Review: National Theatre Live: Young Marx (2018)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 14 March 2018 Karl Marx. A name that inspires equal amounts of fervent respect and spiteful hatred, depending…
Review: National Theatre Live: Peter Pan (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 27 November 2017 115 years after J.M. Barrie created him, Peter Pan is still an icon of popular…
Review: National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 16 October 2017 At only 33, Australian actor/director Simon Stone is a name that most diehard theatre lovers…