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Best of 2018: London theatre
by MARY CONWAY
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
THE BRAINCHILD of Jamie Lloyd, the ongoing Pinter at the Pinter season at the Harold Pinter Theatre commemorates the playwright’s death 10 years ago with seven different compilations of his one-act plays and monologues. Packed with actors at the top of their game, it's a theatrefest to make the heart sing.
Uncomfortably true: A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Pic: Manuel Harlan)
Not only does it showcase Pinter’s range through comedy, anger and political satire to the poignantly personal, raw, violent and prescient, it is also a landmark in the history of theatre craft — a seismic shift from linear narrative to the kind of drama where the fragile construct of words often disguises real character complexity.
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