GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Meet Me at Dawn, Arcola Theatre London
Moving meditation on love and loss from Zinnie Harris
Tragedy in miniature: Meet Me at Dawn
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
ARTISTS have been inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice since ancient Greece and Zinnie Harris has joined their ranks with a two-hander that focuses on the moment Orpheus looks back and realises the full extent of his loss.
Harris’s simple, stylish and compressed version follows two women stranded on a surreal sandbank after a boating accident. The couple approach their new, strange reality with intriguingly contrasting emotions.
Marianne Oldham’s Robyn acts as a fearful narrator and it soon becomes apparent that the reflective, echoing world where they are marooned is her troubled mindscape attempting to make sense of the present.
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