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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Grief, National Theatre by Aleks Sierz

A new play by Mike Leigh is always an event. So there was a palpable excitement in the air at the Cottesloe Theatre (the smallest and most intimate of the three National Theatre auditoria) w…

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Broken Glass, Vaudeville Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Arthur Miller is one of those geniuses whose plays are metaphor-rich even when their storytelling is slow. First staged in 1994, Broken Glass is surely his best late-period drama, and this r…

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Friday, September 16, 2011

My City, Almeida Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Welcome back Stephen Poliakoff. With his first new play for 12 years, the master penman has set aside his television excursions into history and memory " most recently Glorious 39 for the BB…

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

No Naughty Bits, Hampstead Theatre by Aleks Sierz

You could call it the BBC Four effect. It's fact-based fictions set in the past, more often than not about the absurdities of sexual mores or other changing customs. In the latest theatrical…

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Truth and Reconciliation, Royal Court Theatre by Aleks Sierz

Can an ordinary wooden chair be an instrument of torture? Of course, every brute investigation makes use of such furniture, whether as a place to tie the victim down, or as a weapon to attac…

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