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Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel Harlan
25 Apr
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Stuart King

Review: THE BRIGHTENING AIR at The Old Vic

In the programme notes for THE BRIGHTENING AIR, playwright director Conor McPherson compares theatre to a pagan church. “…like a religious service, theatre is a distillation of the baffling privilege of being alive.”

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel HarlanEimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel Harlan

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Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson
25 Apr
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Stuart King

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at London Coliseum

When F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel THE GREAT GATSBY was published in 1925, it was generally considered to be a weaker effort than his earlier works This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. It wasn’t until distribution among American GIs during WWII that the novel gained widespread popularity and began to garner the reputation it holds to this day as a classic of American literature.

Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan PerssonFrances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson.

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Holly Atkins as Veda and Rosie Cavaliero as Bea in Personal Values. Credit Helen Murray
24 Apr
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Review: PERSONAL VALUES at Hampstead Theatre

Personal Values, marks Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s Hampstead Theatre debut and occupies the smaller downstairs space until 17th May.

Holly Atkins as Veda and Rosie Cavaliero as Bea in Personal Values. Credit Helen MurrayHolly Atkins as Veda and Rosie Cavaliero as Bea in Personal Values. Credit Helen Murray.

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Patricia Allison, Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells in Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo Credit Helen Murray.
18 Apr
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Stuart King

Review: GHOSTS at Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Hammersmith’s new version of Ibsen’s GHOSTS proves less of a reworked adaptation and more of a dynamic transformation under Rachel O’Riordan‘s gripping direction.

Patricia Allison, Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells in Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo Credit Helen Murray.Patricia Allison, Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells in Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo Credit Helen Murray.

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Jenny Galloway and Faline England in Heisenberg at the Arcola Theatre. Credit Charlie Flint
16 Apr
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Review: HEISENBERG at Arcola Theatre

When at a train station, a young woman kisses a much older woman on the back of the neck, the act becomes a catalyst for the development of a quirky friendship. Just how random is the circumstance of that first kiss, presents an altogether more interesting matter for speculation and conjecture.

Jenny Galloway and Faline England in Heisenberg at the Arcola Theatre. Credit Charlie FlintJenny Galloway and Faline England in Heisenberg at the Arcola Theatre. Credit Charlie Flint

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