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Showing posts with label National Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Theatre. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2022

Phoney folk in Loamshire (2001)

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Theatre Review from the January 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard House and Garden . The National Theatre Alan Ayckbourn’s separate but...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Foolish Totem of a Hapless World (1999)

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Theatre Review from the July 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. National Theatre. The National continues ...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Bulgakov's 'Flight' (1998)

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Theatre Review from the July 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard Flight, National Theatre, Olivier. Flight , by Mikhail Bulgakov, is a kno...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Three new plays (1998)

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Theatre Review from the April 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard Kevin Elyot had a huge success four years ago with My Night With...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Inadequate and incomplete (1999)

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Theatre Review from the December 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Remember This by Stephen Poliakoff. National Theatre. Ste...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

‘Antigone’ by Sophocles at the National Theatre (2012)

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Theatre Review from the September 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles was recently staged...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Mixed Media: ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma’ (2013)

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The Mixed Media column from the February 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard The Doctor’s Dilemma by Bernard Shaw at the National ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Mixed Media: Children of the Sun (2014)

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The Mixed Media Column from the March 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard The Maxim Gorky play Children of the Sun directed by Howar...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Love Doesn't Conquer All (1997)

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Theatre Review from the August 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard Amy's View by David Hare In the early 1980s David Hare ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Publish and be damned (1996)

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Theatre Review from the October 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard Blinded By The Sun by Stephen Poliakoff (National Theatre) ...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Leave Taking (1995)

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Theatre Review from the June 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock, National Theatre, Cottlesloe and...

Mistaking Your Wife for a Hat (1995)

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Theatre Review from the June 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard I remember my first “meeting” with Oliver Sacks. When you find you...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Ways of Seeing (1997)

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Theatre Review from the July 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard Closer by Patrick Marber Becoming a socialist is an education...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

History Lesson (1977)

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Theatre Review from the August 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard “ State of Revolution ” by Robert Bolt, at the Lyttelton Theatre...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

History from below (1978)

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Theatre Review from the December 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard The World Turned Upside Down , National Theatre, London. (Avai...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Fantasy masquerading as reality (1997)

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Theatre Review from the March 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Lyttleton Theatre. Harold P...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Theatre of the Absurd (1997)

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Theatre Review from the December 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Regular readers of...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Venal system under scrutiny (1997)

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Theatre Review from the January 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, National Theatre. In...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Flawed fairy tales (2000)

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Theatre Review from the April 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard Honk, The Ugly Duckling .  National Theatre. I was about fourteen...