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- The Lonely Hearts Club
- Spilt Milk Theatre is presenting three loosely connected short two-handers at Volupté as 'The Lonely Hearts Club'. You take a seat, order some dinner (if you like) and are...
- Kissed by Brel
- As a rule I don’t like the music of over-hyped Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel – as far as I’m concerned, ‘Brel’ rhymes with ‘hell’ and ‘Ne Me...
- The Wrong Sleep
- Viewed charitably, ‘The Wrong Sleep’ is an ambitious script that has a lot to work against in the Cock Tavern’s scantly resourced black box space. But Mary Mazzilli’s...
- Studio I: Ghosts
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new version of Ibsen’s drama is drippingly dispiriting. Rain trickles from the eaves of the Alving home, where a patriarch’s ghost refuses to lie down and...
- The Maria: 4.48 Psychosis
- The slab of unattributed text that is Sarah Kane’s final work has been described as ‘a 75-minute suicide note’. It less resembles a play than a slice of someone’s...
- Mad Forest
- Caryl Churchill’s audacious portrait of a Romanian revolution hasn’t dated since it opened in 1990, months after the execution of Ceausescu. But so perfectly anchored is it in the...
- Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menzes
- The inquest into the shooting of the Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes lasted for ten weeks and returned an open verdict. Kieron Barry’s edited transcripts run 90 minutes...
- The Black Album
- How cheering Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his second novel should have been. Life is hard now but 1989 was worse: no fatwas currently plague famous Western writers and at least we’ve...