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Culture, Prose, Reviews

Love’s Sacrifice – the RSC’s latest, bloodiest & most spectacular production

by Jacob Warn WARNING: Contains plot details “The rendering is sublime: we watch in mounting and surmounting terror, during which the sole comfort is the divide between stage and pit, fiction and reality.” This is a play of love between friends. Of love getting between friends. But as a play – as a tragedy – […]

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‘Sweet smoke of rhetoric’: a review of Love’s Labour’s Lost at the RSC

by Chloe Cheung Readers are advised that this review makes details of the plot and production explicit. Not even Stewart Lee makes me laugh as much as I did at Christopher Luscombe’s new production of Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Hailed as ‘sparklingly funny’ (The Times) and brimming with ‘continual comic […]

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‘Destroyer of worlds’: Oppenheimer at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon

by Chloe Cheung Readers are advised that this review makes details of the plot explicit.  The threat of nuclear war between the Cold War superpowers plunged the latter half of the 20th century into some of its darkest days.  Tim Morton-Smith’s gripping new play Oppenheimer now brings the man behind the atomic bomb to the stage. […]

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