Read more about the article REVIEW: The Crucible, Olivier National Theatre (2022)
Credit: Erin Doherty as Abigail Williams (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: The Crucible, Olivier National Theatre (2022)

The real life lessons of Salem "The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn towards greater individual…

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REVIEW: Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

The difference in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott is that Effie gets slaughtered by her own hand.  Her life is binge drinking, sex, and stealing from her gran to fund this.  She enjoys people looking away when they see her on the street.  Splott is a run down part of the Welsh capital Cardiff.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)
Simon Russell Beale as John Gabriel Borkman (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)

Fraudsters’ final victims are themselves and their families “Like Ibsen’s Borkman, brooding upstairs, Madoff seemed to think that his criminal career was the result, not of greed, or avarice, but…

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