Read more about the article REVIEW: Yerma with Billie Piper at the Young Vic (2017) NT at Home Screening now
Brendan Cowell as John and Billie Piper as Her (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Yerma with Billie Piper at the Young Vic (2017) NT at Home Screening now

Reviewed at the Young Vic is Australian director Simon Stone's adaptation and direction of Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma, the story of a woman obsessed with becoming pregnant, which ends tragically. The main attraction here is not purely the admirable script but the acting of Billie Piper in the lead role. Her performance scooped the best actress awards at the Critics Circle, Evening Standard and Olivier Awards this year. Those who haven't managed to buy a ticket at the sold out Young Vic may secure one for the National Theatre Live broadcast to cinemas worldwide, to be recorded on 31st August, and shown then in the UK or thereafter in other countries.

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New cast (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: Witness for the Prosecution at County Hall continues from 14th September 2021

Agatha Christie's novel is dramatized in the magnificent setting of a 1920s Edwardian Baroque council chamber with exciting director Lucy Bailey in charge. . . . "I am constantly surprised…

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Shane Zaza as Gus and Alec Newman as Ben (Photo Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre

The Dumb Waiter is a quintessential early Pinter play from 1960, one that feels almost Beckettian if not absurdist. It is set in a room, a situation with bags of sinister mystery with just two players. I always think of what the French writer Jean Anouilh said about Waiting for Godot on seeing Beckett's play for the first time in Paris in 1953. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

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