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David Horovitch as James and Lawrence Walker as Mark, Gemma Lawrence as Amanda with her back to us - Photo: Lidia Crisafulli

REVIEW: Not Talking, Arcola Theatre (2018)

Mike Bartlett is well on his way to becoming established as our best living British playwright. I see only Tom Stoppard as his competition. Twelve years ago, this was his first play, not published until 2011 by Methuen as a part of the first collection of Mike Bartlett plays but Not Talking had never been produced onstage until James Hillier of Defibrillator proposed it.

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Victoria Hamilton as Audrey Walters - Photo: Marc Brenner

REVIEW: Albion, Almeida (2017)

Albion is a slower burn than some of Bartlett's other plays. It is about Englishness and gardens and nostalgia and in that sense a desire, which may or may not be possible, to relive the past. The metaphors will be debated as the themes are many and complex.

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Caoilfhionn Dunne as the Woman and Jack Farthing as Andrew - Photo: Stephen Cummiskey

REVIEW: Wild, Hampstead Theatre (2016)

Mike Bartlett's latest play examines the fate of Andrew (Jack Farthing) an American whistleblower who has changed the world by revealing secret activities including torture and mass observation, spying on citizens and other countries.

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