THEATRE
October 2013
Vicky Featherstone’s first outing as artistic director of the Royal Court is tiresome and intolerably preachy
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September 2013
Lucy Kirkwood's absorbing and visually ambitious Chimerica ranks as one of the year's best plays
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July/August 2013
Peter Nichols’s Passion Play is a trifle dated, but it may make you wonder anxiously where your other half is
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June 2013
The West End’s latest box office hits specialise in existential angst and domestic backstabbing
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Written each month by Standpoint's resident theatre critic, Minette Marrin
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