REVIEW: Top Girls, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls now playing at the National Theatre.
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REVIEW: Angels In America Part Two, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Let’s be clear about this, Angels in America is not a play. It’s an event, the equivalent of box set binge viewing. This brilliantly acted production takes days to process and will stay with you…maybe until the next revival. Epic, extraordinary, breathtaking- and here’s another cliché- fight for a ticket!
REVIEW: Angels In America Part One, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It’s hard to avoid the word ‘epic’ when discussing Tony Kushner’s play, the sweep and ambition is still broad and astonishing.
REVIEW: An Inspector Calls, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The entire production is a fascinating interpretation, and completely lives up to its ‘landmark’ hype. In these times of political upheaval, Priestley’s reminder that “we are responsible for each other” is not only timely, but timeless. After a turbulent 2016, An Inspector Calls is a must see.
REVIEW: Birdland, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭
There is a simply amazing moment when the set literally starts to crack up or, depending on how you look at it, begins to drown – just as the central character, Andrew Scott’s troubled rock supremo, Paul, finds his personal world crumbling around him, finds himself drowning in a sea of excess, selfishness and solitude.
