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Review: Peter Gynt, National Theatre
Can money swing a show? It’s a real worry in this business. Does having a large, famous cast set against an expensive or moving set always guarantee to impress...
Paul Englishby
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Review: White Teeth, Kiln Theatre
Full disclosure: to me Zadie Smith’s first novel White Teeth is a national treasure brushing shoulders with the Countdown theme song and Naomi Campbell. I knew ...
Indhu Rubasingham: “We are in dark times and this is the antidote to that”
Josephine Balfour Oatts talks to Indhu Rubasingham about finally getting White Teeth to the stage, not using the 'm' word and leaky dressing rooms. It seems th...
Review: The Tempest, Barbican Centre
In the second scene of The Tempest, Prospero famously recounts to his daughter Miranda how the pair came to inhabit their magical island all those years ago, pe...
Review: The Moderate Soprano, Hampstead Theatre
David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano is, on the surface, a play about the construction (literally and artistically) of Glyndebourne opera house. Within that, it ch...