Samuel Sims

Lack of Diversity in Oscar and BAFTA Nominations. Do the Olivier Awards Fare Any Better?

Samuel SimsJanuary 16, 2020

Anyone else feel angry/ puzzled/ not that surprised about the recent Oscar and BAFTA nominations? Samuel Sims is feeling all sorts of emotion. Here, he discuss...

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Review: Lungs, The Old Vic

Samuel SimsOctober 26, 2019

Here’s something a little bit different. Instead of the conventional approach of one person reviewing a show, Managing Editor, Sam Sims and Reviews Editor, Jos...

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Pamela, Samuel Richardson, Cate Blanchett, Katie Mitchell, Stephen Dillane, Sussie Juhlin-Wallen, Jessica Gunning, feminism, gender, power

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Review: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, The National Theatre

Samuel SimsJanuary 25, 2019

Before the lights descended tonight, a ton of people excitedly looked the auditorium up and down as if hoping Cate Blanchett would fly out of the Dorfman’s cei...

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Review: Half Breed, Soho Theatre

Samuel SimsMay 2, 2018

Half Breed is for anyone that has ever felt ‘other’. It’s exhausting, breakneck and revitalising; a show and a performer that don’t stop for breath until the me...

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Review: The Inheritance, Young Vic

Samuel SimsApril 14, 2018

A production almost completely dominated by men (the only woman, Vanessa Redgrave makes a brief if emotionally charged appearance near the end), The Inheritance...

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Dating, David Eldridge, Polly Findlay, Fly Davis, Justine Mitchell, Sam Troughton

Review: Beginning, Ambassador’s Theatre

Samuel SimsJanuary 31, 2018

Should we feel bad for occasionally preferring to exist in the space called cyber? Is it so awful to be able to communicate more coherently - more confidently t...

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