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Simon Russell Beale as John Gabriel Borkman (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:2 October 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Fraudsters’ final victims are themselves and their families “Like Ibsen’s Borkman, brooding upstairs, Madoff seemed to think that his criminal career was the result, not of greed, or avarice, but…

Brian Ferguson as Young Robert - Photo: Manuel Harlan

REVIEW: Earthquakes in London, Cottesloe Theatre (2010)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:13 August 2010
Post category:Mike Bartlett Play Review Uncategorized West End
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The epic themes of the play, which mainly takes place in the present, but begins in 1968 and fasts forward to 2525, are explored through the prism of a dysfunctional family, whose break-up mirrors the impending ecological disaster.

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