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By Phil Willmott Wednesday, November 6 2019, 10:13
Can you improve a masterpiece? The answer at the Piccadilly Theatre until January 4th is a resounding yes.
Salesman is widely regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. On the face of it it’s a domestic tragedy. We’re in the early 1950s and the hosiery salesman Willy Loman returns home from a long sales trip on a hot summer night, to his worried wife.
By Marian Pashley Monday, November 4 2019, 13:36
This play was originally performed in 1985, and explores the realities of high unemployment, unending poverty and the blight of hidden carers, the offspring who are burdened with the necessity of looking after a chronically dependant parent. The fact that, over thirty years later it's only the price of the "hand jobs" that young carer Rita (Alis Wyn Davies) gives to the boys on the "rec", that has changed, should be a matter of outrage. It won't be, of course.
By John Yap Monday, November 4 2019, 13:24
Samuel Bailey’s hard hitting, realistic and thought provoking play, SHOOK, winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, receives its World premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in London.
By Phil Willmott Sunday, November 3 2019, 17:50
I’ve known the playwright Claudio Macor for some years, ever since I directed one of his early plays. Since then he’s commendably amassed a significant body of work in which he uncovers dark moments from the history of gay oppression and vividly dramatises them.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, October 31 2019, 11:54
I was looking forward to this because reviews and word of mouth about American writer Annie Baker’s recent plays at the National Theatre, JOHN and the THE FLICK were so blisteringly good and I’d missed both.
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