Read more about the article REVIEW: Les Blancs, Olivier National Theatre (2016)
Sheila Atim as The Woman (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Les Blancs, Olivier National Theatre (2016)

This production is spellbinding and its momentum stays with me occupying my thoughts, whirring like the revolving stage. The text, finalised by Lorraine Hansberry's former husband and literary executor Robert Nemiroff, would bear much further study to grasp all its themes and nuances. Written from her viewpoint in the 1960s by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the original person to be described as "young, gifted and black", her unfinished play Les Blancs, examines an unnamed African country on the brink of revolution and independence from colonial rule. Lorraine Hansberry was in her mid thirties when she tragically died of pancreatic cancer.

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Helen McCrory as Libby (left), Julie Walters as Judy (centre), Rory Kinnear as Nick (right) - Photo: Catherine Ashmore

REVIEW: The Last of the Haussmans, Lyttelton Theatre (2012)

Stellar Cast for Stephen Beresford's First Play "My children hate it when I'm sexual." Judy Helen McCrory as Libby (left), Julie Walters as Judy (centre), Rory Kinnear as Nick (right)…

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Danny Webb as Stephen (centre) and Company - Photo: Marc Brenner

REVIEW: 13, Olivier Theatre (2011)

13 is about politics and the part we play or don't play in decision making. Faced with a society, set in the present where the banks call the shots and where people die in pointless wars, Bartlett questions whether it has to be like this.

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