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Tim Piggot-Smith as King Charles III Photo - Johan Persson

REVIEW: King Charles III, Almeida (2014)

Mike Bartlett may be our best British playwright. With each play he writes he demonstrates a variety of talent and perception, inventing new and diverse subjects. His latest play surprised some of the critical fraternity, who hadn't done their homework, when they realised his modern history play, like Shakespeare's histories was in verse. Except that it isn't accurate to call King Charles III a history play as it is about events that haven't yet taken place.

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Rachael Stirling as Lady Susan Climber (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Scandaltown, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

Scandaltown, sex and satire!  "You ignored your own law and partied in the garden."  Freddie Peripheral  Rachael Stirling as Lady Susan Climber and Henry Everett as Carson (Photo: Marc Brenner) Mike…

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