Kiln Theatre announce NW trilogy by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams
The Kiln Theatre announce the NW trilogy by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams to open in September 2021.
The Kiln Theatre announce the NW trilogy by Moira Buffini, Suhayla El-Bushra and Roy Williams to open in September 2021.
The National Theatre will present Manor, a new play by Moira Buffini which is to play at the Lyttelton Theatre from 7 April – 15 July 2020.
Gabriel, a play by Moira Buffini will tour the UK from 28 March 2017. This is the second time the production has been staged since the play originally premiered at the Soho Theatre in 1997. The story of Gabriel is based in 1943 Nazi-occupied Guernsey. Widow and mother Jeanne does whatever it takes to keep her adolescent daughter Estelle and daughter-in-law Lily safe on an island filled with danger and fear. Her toughest test arrives in the form of the terrifying Commander Von Pfunz, whose romantic advances may be the only way to keep her family alive. But tensions intensify when a mysterious young man is washed ashore with no memory of who he is. Fluent in German and English, is he an RAF pilot, an SS interrogator, a local boy with amnesia or a saviour sent from heaven? The stakes are high and getting it wrong means certain death. … Read more
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.
Handbagged promises much and delivers very little. It’s vaguely interesting and occasionally genuinely involving