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If you’re looking for a big stage spectacular à la Wicked or The Sound of Music, you’ll be disappointed, but if you like your Rodgers and Hammerstein understated and a little dark, then this show will certainly appeal.

Apr 22 2009 | View Comments

Country Magic

By Stephe Harrop

An old-fashioned confection of kindly wish-fulfilment, Country Magic appeals to the enduring desire that small miracles might somewhere, and somehow, occur.

Apr 18 2009 | View Comments

For Once I Was

By Jens Peters

Story and structure are well-conceived, but without Rebecca Stevenson’s ability to change from schoolgirl Gracie to a prematurely grown-up woman in a heartbeat…For Once I Was would remain just that – an interesting story well told.

Apr 18 2009 | View Comments

A Place at the Table

By Matt Boothman

A Place at the Table has a couple of rock-solid concepts – the subject matter and staging – at its heart, but glommed around them is a mass of shiny little distractions that serve only to obscure the truths verbatim theatre is supposed to expose.

Apr 16 2009 | View Comments

That Night Follows Day

By Diana Damian

That Night Follows Day was commissioned by Flemish theatre company Victoria and written and directed by Tim Etchells as part of a series of productions performed by children for adults.

Apr 10 2009 | View Comments

Death and the King’s Horseman

By Matt Boothman

Though Death and the King’s Horseman was programmed well before England People Very Nice opened and the accusations began, in context it feels like a comforting reassurance that the National Theatre does not condone racism.

Apr 8 2009 | View Comments

Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness

By Stephe Harrop

Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness is Anthony Neilson’s homage to the garish and cruel spectacle of the nineteenth-century freak-show.

Apr 4 2009 | View Comments

The Story of Vasco

By Stephe Harrop

Veering between silliness and savagery, at times The Story of Vasco feels like a mind-bending collision of Milligan and Lorca.

Mar 29 2009 | View Comments

The Overcoat

By Stephe Harrop

Amit Lahav’s company bring wit and compassion and an essential lightness of touch to this grimmest of stories, aided by Ti Green’s bleakly playful set and some glorious lighting from James Farncombe.

Mar 25 2009 | View Comments