Play – Page 219 – TheatreVibe

Lizzy Watts as Kelly and Peter Polycarpou as Ibrahim - Photo: Marc Brenner

REVIEW: Artefacts, Bush Theatre (2008)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:28 February 2008
Post category:Mike Bartlett Off West End Play Review
Post comments:0 Comments

Mike Bartlett is writing exciting plays about families. His debut play My Child which opened at the Royal Court showed his talent for accurately observing the terrible language of family breakup. Now he follows it up with a tale about a girl and the clash of cultures in her heritage. It starts with the girl's story and ends with that of another girl from a different world. The whole is a political allegory.

Craig Leo ( puppeteer) Joey ( puppet) - Photo: Simon Annand

REVIEW: War Horse, Olivier Theatre (2007)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:18 October 2007
Post category:Play Review West End
Post comments:0 Comments

What Michael Morpurgo's novel does is to place the horse centre stage, so that episodes in the First World War are seen from an equine point of view. The curious effect is that in this "war to end all wars" you realise that on the opposing side are good men who love horses. You hate what war does because horses get hurt and killed or die of overwork and malnutrition. But how to stage a play where the central character is a horse?

Ben Miles as The Man and Adam Arnold as The Child - Photo: Keith Pattison

REVIEW: My Child, Royal Court (2007)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 May 2007
Post category:Mike Bartlett Off West End Play Review
Post comments:0 Comments

Set in an amazingly transformed Royal Court Jerwood main auditorium is the first play for the stage by Mike Bartlett, My Child.

Newer Posts

Older Posts