La Vérité

REVIEW: My Country - A Work In Progress, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

One of the best elements of the evening was us, the audience, the British, still laughing at ourselves and appreciating the irony of the lies politicians speak and the truths people live. It made me feel strangely patriotic.

Paul T Davies

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Florian Zeller Takes On The West End With Three Productions

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: F*cking Men, King's Head ✭✭✭✭

DiPietro’s character studies vere dangerously close to stereotypes at times but ultimately the truth of the characters and their circumstances win out. There’s drama and humour aplenty, but DiPietro is skilled at lulling the audience into a sense of false comfort through the use of sex, leaving us to realise the loneliness and despair that some of these characters feel.

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, St James Studio ✭✭✭✭✭

Sadly this fine adaptation has a very brief run – I do hope another theatre can be persuaded to allow us to experience this play with this cast once more - and soon…..It deserves to be seen for its own qualities, for the fresh insights it brings to a work we think we know all too well, and for what it tells us of Wilde as well. It showcases in exemplary fashion the jostling, unstable and ultimately tragic combination of talents and aspirations that comprise Wilde's unique persona. As usual, he perceived the truth ahead of all the critics: ‘Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks me: Dorian is what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.’

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Happy Endings, Arcola Theatre ✭

Gov's idea - a confrontational musical fantasy dealing with the realities of Cancer, Cancer treatment and human responses to both - is inspired. In the second Act of Happy Endings there are flashes of the truth, pain and insight that Gov, who died of Cancer in 2012, brought to the enterprise.

REVIEW: Dying For It, Atlantic Theatre Company ✭✭✭✭

The best scenes were the group set pieces – the enthusiastic party to celebrate Semyon’s planned suicide and the reveal around the coffin when the truth comes home to roost. The cast were all in tune with each other, delightfully interacting in a silly way while keeping true to their particular character’s interior motivations and drives.