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BWW Review: 'MASTER HAROLD'...AND THE BOYS, National Theatre

BWW Review: 'MASTER HAROLD'...AND THE BOYS, National Theatre

by Marianka Swain — October 2, 2019

Athol Fugard's 1982 play, set in 1950s Port Elizabeth, is inspired by his own boyhood in apartheid-era South Africa a?' as Fugard says in a programme note, it's a?oethe most intensely personal thing I have ever writtena??.

BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres

BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres

by Jo Fisher — October 2, 2019

If any show proves that physical comedy is timeless, it's One Man, Two Guvnors, which brings a subversive 18th-century Italian comedy onto the 21st-century stage, and then promptly pushes it down the stairs to uproarious laughter.

BWW Review: PLATONIC, White Bear Theatre

BWW Review: PLATONIC, White Bear Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina — October 2, 2019

Emily (Julia-Maria Arnolds) is heading to a?oethe villagea?? to try to fix things with her boyfriend, who's actually decided not to go with her after all.

BWW Review: THE WATSONS, Menier Chocolate Factory

BWW Review: THE WATSONS, Menier Chocolate Factory

by Marianka Swain — October 1, 2019

Laura Wade isn't the first to tackle Jane Austen's unfinished novel, abandoned in 1805, but she is the only one so far to write herself, the struggling adaptor, into the text.

BWW Review: MUSEUM PIECES, Tristan Bates Theatre

BWW Review: MUSEUM PIECES, Tristan Bates Theatre

by Jonathan Marshall — October 3, 2019

Museum Pieces consists of four monologues and tells the story of four individuals who are forever changed, perhaps scarred, by a reality television show in which the contestants appear naked.

BWW Review: REDD, Barbican Centre

BWW Review: REDD, Barbican Centre

by Charlie Wilks — September 28, 2019

Following on from their phenomenal, Oliver-Award winning spectacle Blak Whyte Gray, which I saw last year, world-renowned dance company Boy Blue present their new show at Barbican Centre.

BWW Review: MACBETH, Chichester Festival Theatre

BWW Review: MACBETH, Chichester Festival Theatre

by Debbie Gilpin — September 28, 2019

The time is now for The Scottish Play; over the past couple of years there has been a glut of Macbeths, no doubt inspired by the extraordinary ongoing political events.

BWW Review: GLASS. KILL. BLUEBEARD. IMP., Royal Court

BWW Review: GLASS. KILL. BLUEBEARD. IMP., Royal Court

by Marianka Swain — September 27, 2019

Caryl Churchill returns with a new quartet of shorts a?' and, at 81, she's still one of the most daring, formally inventive and linguistically dexterous playwrights working today.

BWW Review: TWO LADIES, Bridge Theatre

BWW Review: TWO LADIES, Bridge Theatre

by Anthony Walker-Cook — September 26, 2019

At the G7 summit last month, the wives of the world leaders were pictured together by Donald Tusk walking not across a zebra crossing as per The Beatles but through a garden.

BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Young Vic

BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Young Vic

by Bryony Rae Taylor — September 26, 2019

Tragedy was Lorca'sdomain, and fabric of his plays are about the darkest parts of collective human behaviour.

BWW Review: MOTHER OF HIM, Park Theatre

BWW Review: MOTHER OF HIM, Park Theatre

by Laura Jones — September 25, 2019

Based on a true story, Evan Placey's debut play Mother of Him tells the story of a Canadian teenager under house arrest while he waits for his hearing.

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