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The Emperor Jones
August 29, 2007 11:28 AM
Paterson Joseph in The Emperor
Jones at the National
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The theatre works in mysterious, sometimes glorious ways. By way of proof, one need look no further than the National Theatre's astonishing new production of The Emperor Jones, which takes a production first seen almost two years ago within the smallest of confines and expands it for ...
Grease
August 09, 2007 10:31 AM
Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden
in Grease
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Does it matter what the critics say about Grease? Not one iota, which is good, since they're not going to be kind. So perhaps it's worth stating at the outset that this reprise of David Gilmore's earlier, definitely sexier product...
Buddy
August 08, 2007 09:08 AM
Dean Elliott and Hayley Berkley
in Buddy
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“I hope the music is enough,” says Buddy Holly, before he takes to the stage of Harlem’s Apollo Theatre in Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson’s cursory packaging of his life and music—and the reply comes, “If it ain’t, you’re dead.” The Crickets had been signed to appear there on the mistaken a...
The Enchantment
August 02, 2007 02:35 PM
Zubin Varla and Nancy Carroll
in Enchantment
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Those wanting to clock the moment when a fine, hard-working actress positions herself as a star will want to beat a hasty path to The Enchantment, a little-known Swedish play from the 1880s that has arrived at the National at just the moment to give NT regular player Nancy Carroll her...
Absurdia
August 02, 2007 11:24 AM
Peter Capaldi in A Resounding Tinkle
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," the trashcan-bound Nell tells us in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, and surely not very much is sadder than a comedy that doesn't land. Such was the distinct feeling in the air at the opening night performance of the eagerly anticipated Absurdia,...
Take Flight
July 26, 2007 12:33 PM
Sally Ann Triplett as Amelia Earhart
in Take Flight
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Flight of some kind is what we inevitably wish for every time we go to the theatre—an evening to lift us out of ourselves and carry us somewhere else for several hours. So the first thing to be said about the new art musical, Take Flight...
Twelfth Night
July 23, 2007 02:46 PM
Patrick Stewart in Twelfth Night
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Patrick Stewart's renewed career as a top-rank Shakespearean continues with his Malvolio in Twelfth Night, the film and TV star's fourth go-round with the Bard in quick succession. Running in repertory at the Chichester Festival Theatre with the West End-bound Macbeth, featurin...
The Hothouse
July 19, 2007 11:47 AM
Stephen Moore, Finbar Lynch
and Paul Ritter in The Hothouse
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You hardly expect a play by Harold Pinter, of all people, to prompt near-consistent laughter, but such is the case with Ian Rickson's new National Theatre production of The Hothouse, which takes a script marinated in both George Orwell and NF Simpson and turns it into the drollest, mo...
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