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Category: Nationhood

• Culture England Ideology Masculinity Nationhood Race Theatre

  Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads at the Spiegeltent Chichester

  Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads Spigeltent, Chichester Festival Theatre, 17th October 2019 There are a few candidates for my favourite play of 2019. Lynn Nottage’s stunning Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse, or either of the revivals of the Miller classics at the Old and Young Vics respectively, All…

  November 26, 2019
• Australia Colonialism Contact Culture History Landscape London Nationhood Nature Novel Place Power Theatre

  The Secret River at the National Theatre review ****

  The Secret River National Theatre Olivier, 29th August 2019 This must have been tough. Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River is an epic production, in terms of the story it tells and the way it tells it, involving numerous creatives and a large cast, over 40 people in…

  October 12, 2019
• Borders Culture Europe London Nationhood Place Politics Theatre

  Europe at the Donmar Warehouse review ****

  Europe Donmar Warehouse, 6th August 2019 I have been mightily impressed with the two adaptations by David Greig, the AD of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, that I have seen to date. The Suppliant Women, based on Aeschylus’s The Suppliants, which came to the Young Vic a couple of years ago,…

  September 30, 2019
• Culture Empire History Institution Mental Illness Nationhood Politics Theatre War

  Plenty at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ****

  Plenty Chichester Festival Theatre, 27th June 2019 Sir David Hare has written a fair few plays. Important plays. As well as TV screenplays and film scripts. I’ve only seen a handful but it’s not difficult to work out why the old boy is so important. Even if some would suggest…

  August 23, 2019
• Acting Culture London Nationhood Theatre USA

  Radio at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  Radio Arcola Theatre, 25th June 2019 Never easy to work out what to sign up for at the Arcola Theatre since so much of quality and interest passes through the doors. So the Tourist has adopted a somewhat whimsical approach and given up worrying too much if he misses the…

  August 17, 2019
• Culture London Myths Nationhood Opera USA

  Paul Bunyan at Alexandra Park Theatre review ****

  Paul Bunyan Alexandra Park Theatre, 11th May 2019 What was that all about? Benjamin Britten and WH Auden’s “choral operetta” which premiered in 1941 when they were in America, is a fable, structured like a Broadway musical, with an array of musical styles, (though BB’s hand is always clear), sometimes…

  May 29, 2019