Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Wild, Hampstead Theatre London
Ingenious whistleblower drama from Mike Bartlett now online
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
MIKE BARTLETT'S opening play in Hampstead Theatre's short season of free weekly online productions owes much to Pinter's comedies of menace, with their characteristic mixture of humour, mystery and lurking fear.
Like The Dumb Waiter, originally planned for Hampstead's main theatre programme — now postponed — Wild is set initially in a recognisable social context, with the plot progressively leaving the target character bewildered and unhinged.
Michael, played by Jack Farthing, is a somewhat naive Edward Snowden-type whistleblower who, having leaked a massive stash of incriminating Pentagon documents, is on the run.
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