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Jellyfish at the National Theatre
What a great thing it is that the National Theatre has given Ben Weatherill's Jellyfish a second run…
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Peter Gynt at the National Theatre
It's sort of mad that theatre gets away with plays that breach the 180-minute mark on a semi-regular…
By Connor Campbell
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Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner at the Royal Court Theatre
It's hard to get the internet right. It's arguably even tougher to truly nail Twitter. In Seven Methods…
By Connor Campbell
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The End of History at the Royal Court Theatre
Disappointing parents and parental disappointment. In his latest play, stage and screen's busiest boy Jack Thorne frames this…
By Connor Campbell
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The Damned (Les Damnés) at the Barbican
"The complicity of the people is the great miracle of the Third Reich." In Ivo van Hove's The…
By Connor Campbell
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Strange Fruit at Bush Theatre
In The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin has her main character, the child of Taiwanese immigrants in the US, state…
By Connor Campbell
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Sweat at Gielgud Theatre
There are Trump plays. There are Brexit plays. And then there are those plays that effortlessly capture an…
By Connor Campbell
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Armadillo at Yard Theatre
US gun culture isn't exactly a thing that easily translates over here, as is the incomprehensibility of that…
By Connor Campbell
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Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre
Polly Findlay's production of Rutherford and Son is basically the National Theatre programming the Lyttelton on autopilot. A…
By Connor Campbell
Theatre
Top ten theatre shows to see in June 2019
Summer can be a bit of barren period for new theatre. Luckily this June has plenty of intriguing…
By Connor Campbell