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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Read more about the article REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre (2018)
Cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Photo: Alistair Muir)

REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre (2018)

Very rarely am I able to use expressions like heartwarming and unmissable about musicals with the sincerity and integrity that I apply to my critical reviews. Maybe because Everybody's Talking About Jamie is based on the true story of Jamie Campbell, a boy from County Durham (think the brutal, uncompromising North, not far from the scene of Billy Elliot) whose ambition is to be a drag queen.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Constellations reviewed in 2012 opening at the Vaudeville June 2021
Rafe Spall as Roland (Photo: Simon Annand)

REVIEW: Constellations reviewed in 2012 opening at the Vaudeville June 2021

Nick Payne’s latest play for The Royal Court is a two hander on the possibilities of alternative actions and parallel existences. With references to string theory, quantum mechanics and relativity about which your reviewer makes no pretence as to having any comprehension, I was reminded of Charlotte Jones’ play Humble Boy.

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