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The Witness, Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London
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[Financial Times] - By Ian Shuttleworth Last year Vivienne Franzmann's classroom drama Mogadishu announced her as a playwright not just to watch, but to watch keenly and with absorption. Her second play, The Witness, intensifies that sense. I cannot remember when last I
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
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[Financial Times] - By Ian Shuttleworth It might just be cheeky of the Royal Shakespeare Company to have scheduled the press night of their latest World Shakespeare Festival production immediately following the Diamond Jubilee. A play written towards the end of another
Antigone, National Theatre (Olivier), London
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[Financial Times] - By Ian Shuttleworth A year ago I saw an Antigone which used a Middle Eastern setting to make a point about conflicting value systems under the Iraqi occupation. Polly Findlay's thrilling revival in the Olivier's Travelex season shows the other
The Beloved, Bush Theatre, London
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[Financial Times] - By Ian Shuttleworth This version of the story of Abraham and Isaac is not about God's compact. It focuses entirely on man; his zeal, which leads him to undertake the sacrificial trip to the mountain in the first place, and in particular the
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