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Phone hacking play gets West End transfer

Editorial Staff11th July 20142nd July 2014 News, West End

The National Theatre has another smash hit on its hands with the play Great Britain by Richard Bean starring Billie Piper and Robert Glennister. The play satirising the phone hacking scandal and other dubious press practices opened at The National Theatre shortly after the verdicts on real life phone hacking trials had concluded. News of the transfer comes just two days after the play opened. The play, starring Piper as an ambitious tabload news editor, was rehearsed in secret while the phone hacking trial was taking place. The play will move to the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 10 September.

REVIEW: Blurred Lines, The Shed Theatre at The National ✭✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins17th July 201423rd February 2014 Reviews

Blurred Lines at The National Theatre Shed

Blurred Lines is one of the best things to play at the National Theatre in the last six years. It is a significant and provocative work of great sweep and scope.

REVIEW: King Lear, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins17th July 201424th January 2014 Reviews

There has not, since 2007, been a National Theatre production of a Shakespearean play anything like as engaging, thrilling and involving as the Sam Mendes helmed revival of King Lear now playing in the Olivier Theatre.

REVIEW: The Light Princess, Lyttleton Theatre at the National ✭✭

Stephen Collins23rd July 201410th October 2013 Reviews

It has to be said that, taking into account the whole experience, The Light Princess is no better or worse a musical than Viva Forever! In both cases, the book needs fundamental reworking, the score too, and there were avoidable casting issues – but each had/has real potential.

REVIEW: Strange Interlude, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins14th August 201429th August 2013 Reviews

Strange Interlude review National Theatre

Godwin’s sensational production will be long remembered – chiefly for being exactly what The National Theatre should be about all the time: first rate productions of first rate texts with first rate casts. The theatrical world’s other triple threat.

REVIEW: The Drowned Man – A Hollywood Fable ✭✭✭✭✭

Emily Hardy19th November 201519th July 2013 Off West End, Reviews

Punchdrink presented The Drwoned man - A Hollywood Fable

Punchdrunk, since forming in 2000, have unabashedly muddied the theatrical waters and, in this mega collaboration with The National Theatre, have redefined the form and its capabilities entirely. So, go. Marvel. Dance. And if you don’t come out with shoes full of sand, bark in your hair, drowning in sweat and emotionally exhausted, then you’re not doing it right.