MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Theatre director JOLLEY GOSNOLD tells Lynne Walsh why he's bringing an Ibsen classic bang up to date
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
ADAPTING a complex and politically charged classic by literary colossus Henrik Ibsen may seem daunting enough.
More than that, the new production of his play An Enemy of the People, about to open at The Playground Theatre in west London, promises “a new, diverse, modern adaptation,” a description which might strike dread into many a reviewer’s heart.
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