THEATRE
April 2014
Versailles trots out Keynes’s tired arguments while 1984 mistakes Winston Smith for Edward Snowden
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March 2014
Tom Hiddleston was the latest big-screen heart-throb to bring Shakespeare to his adoring fans
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January/February 2014
It was a fine year for the Bard, with David Tennant, Rory Kinnear and Jude Law impressing, but there was far more than just Shakespeare
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November 2013
Henry Goodman is outstanding as Arturo Ui, the German playwright's terrifying caricature of Hitler
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Theatre
Written each month by Standpoint's resident theatre critic, Minette Marrin
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