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Marianka Swain

Marianka Swain was UK Editor-in-chief of BroadwayWorld. A London-based theatre critic and arts journalist, she also contributes to other outlets such as the Telegraph, The i Paper, Ham & High, Islington Gazette, Dancing Times and theartsdesk, and she is a member of the Critics' Circle. You can find more of her work at www.mkmswain.com or follow her on Twitter @mkmswain

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BWW Review: LEOPOLDSTADT, Wyndham's Theatre

BWW Review: LEOPOLDSTADT, Wyndham's Theatre

February 13, 2020

Tom Stoppard's latest - and possibly final - play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality.

BWW Review: THE VISIT, National Theatre

BWW Review: THE VISIT, National Theatre

February 14, 2020

Three years after the National's enthralling revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragicomic 1956 parable a?' which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical.

BWW Review: THE WELKIN, National Theatre

BWW Review: THE WELKIN, National Theatre

January 22, 2020

How can we know more about a comet in outer space than we do a woman's body? So queries Lucy Kirkwood's superb new history play a?' a feminist courtroom drama that's equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash of searing, up-to-the-minute political and social co

BWW Interview: Sam Tutty Talks DEAR EVAN HANSEN

BWW Interview: Sam Tutty Talks DEAR EVAN HANSEN

January 3, 2020

Last year, recent drama school graduate Sam Tutty landed the role of a lifetime: the lead in Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, which is now playing in the West End.

BWW Review: THE BOY FRIEND, Menier Chocolate Factory

BWW Review: THE BOY FRIEND, Menier Chocolate Factory

December 4, 2019

How ripping! A saucy French maid doing the Charleston with a handsome chap in tennis whites sets the scene for the most delightful escapism in town: Matthew White's gossamer-light revival of Sandy Wilson's 1953 love letter to the Roaring Twenties.

BWW Review: & JULIET, Shaftesbury Theatre

BWW Review: & JULIET, Shaftesbury Theatre

November 20, 2019

Have you ever dreamed of seeing Juliet wrest control of her destiny from William Shakespeare, aided by a liberated Anne Hathaway, all while belting out stone-cold Nineties and Noughties pop bangers? Well, you're in luck! This jukebox musical take on the Bard is pure sugar rush a?' and with enough gr

BWW Review: TOUCHING THE VOID, Duke of York's Theatre

BWW Review: TOUCHING THE VOID, Duke of York's Theatre

November 15, 2019

How can you possibly put Joe Simpson's account of his hellish mountaineering accident on stage? Curiosity alone might well draw in viewers for this new adaptation, which premiered last year at Bristol Old Vic a?' swiftly followed by awe as they see just how inventively writer David Greig and directo




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