Posted by Matt on 14 January, 2010 · Leave a Comment
If you can afford a cinema ticket, you can afford a theatre ticket.
Posted by Matt on 24 September, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Like a glass-panelled clock, Deborah Warner’s Mother Courage and Her Children doesn’t just choose not to conceal its inner workings, it displays them, inviting the audience to marvel at the way the pieces fit together.
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Posted by Matt on 25 June, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Is NT Live the first step towards shattering live theatre’s international boundaries?
Posted by Matt on 31 May, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Perhaps under other circumstances having ’solved’ All’s Well would be enough of an achievement, but this is the National we’re talking about; it’s perfectly justifiable to demand more.
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Posted by Matt on 8 April, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Though Death and the King’s Horseman was programmed well before England People Very Nice opened and the accusations began, in context it feels like a comforting reassurance that the National Theatre does not condone racism.
Posted by Matt on 12 March, 2009 · 3 Comments
It’s all too easy to remain detached from the subject of Iraq. Stovepipe aims to pick us up off the sidelines and deposit us bodily into the midst of the relief effort.
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Posted by Matt on 12 February, 2009 · 1 Comment
The play does a great job putting the problems of today’s multicultural London in perpsective, as each generation of immigrants eventually integrates into British life and then takes its turn oppressing the next.
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Posted by Matt on 23 June, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Within a minute director Melly Still’s production has yanked the audience as violently and spectacularly up to date as it has The Revenger’s Tragedy itself.
