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  The recent eclipse: how we have responded to the sky going wrong throughout history.

  August 17, 2026
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  The Unmediated Stage

  In which we ask what theatre tells us about why we are drawn to the strongman.

  August 8, 2026
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  Coriolanus: The Instrument and Its Negation

  Coriolanus: A deep dive into the making of a “hero”.

  July 15, 2026
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  Sexy Greedy: Caryl Churchill, the City Comedy, and the World Big Bang Made

  Serious Money: A deep dive into an essential English drama

  June 2, 2026
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  What’s the Big Idea

  A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.

  May 20, 2026
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  Catching up (Part 7)

  July 2021 Out West – The Overseas Student – Blue Water and Cold and Fresh – Go, Girl – Lyric Hammersmith – 7th July – ***** Rachel O’Riordan, the AD at the Lyric Hammersmith, might be as good if not better at programming plays as she is directing herself. And…

  January 31, 2023
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  Mother Courage and her Children at the Royal Exchange Manchester review ****

  Mother Courage and her Children Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 28th February 2019 Brecht. Royal Exchange. Headlong (This House, People, Places and Things, Labour of Love, Common, Junkyard, 1984, The Glass Menagerie, American Psycho and Enron – and that’s just what I can vouchsafe), Anna Jordan adapting, Amy Hodge, the Associate…

  March 19, 2019
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  The Good Person of Szechwan at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Good Person of Szechwan Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, Barbican Theatre, 9th February 2019 I am a sucker for these Russian theatre companies. Despite the fact that I can’t say I was bowled over by the last visits of the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg and the Vakhtangov State…

  February 27, 2019
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  Caroline, or Change at the Hampstead Theatre review *****

  Caroline, or Change Hampstead Theatre, 18th April 2018 How many exceptions does it take before the rule is unproven? I don’t, as a rule, like musicals, as I have oft repeated on these very pages. I absolutely adored this though. That might be because it isn’t your classic show tunes,…

  April 29, 2018
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  Mother Courage and Her Children at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

  Mother Courage and Her Children Southwark Playhouse, 7th November 2017 Hmmm. I am torn. This was a mixed bag and no mistake. The good stuff first. Well it is Brecht so there will always be big issues to chew on, although here the anti-war appeal that lies at the heart…

  November 10, 2017
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  Life of Galileo at the Young Vic review ****

  Life of Galileo Young Vic, 21st June 2017 My Brechtian education continues apace. Who would have thought that until a couple of years ago I hadn’t see any Brecht plays at all and frankly wasn’t that interested having been put off by the great man’s reputation. What a klutz I…

  June 28, 2017
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  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Donmar Warehouse review ****

  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Donmar Warehouse, 18th May 2017 I see a lot of theatre now. Which means I read a lot of press reviews. Which is about the only time I ever step out of my Guardian reading, liberal, metropolitan elite cocoon. And that means reading reviews…

  May 20, 2017