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Rachael Stirling as A - Photo: Kevin Cummins

REVIEW: An Intervention, Watford Palace (2014)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:23 April 2014
Post category:Mike Bartlett Off West End Play Review
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An Intervention looks at the tensions of a platonic friendship between a man and a woman.

Victoria Hamilton as Sandra and Ben Miles as Kenneth - Photo: Johan Persson

REVIEW: Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court (2012)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:4 May 2012
Post category:Mike Bartlett Off West End Play Review
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Mike Barlett"s Love, Love, Love is set over five decades following a baby boomer couple from 19 to 62 through marriage, children and divorce. Ben Miles and Victoria Hamilton under James Grieve"s direction are charged with believably aging more than 40 years.

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
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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.