The first draft of the article is finished. It only took a few days! It’s the first time I’ve ever written an outline before starting the writing, and I’m amazed by the clarity this provided. The argument quickly came into …
Tag: Plays
Crave at Chichester Festival
I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I’m still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed …
The Domesticated Survival Play
Ella Road’s The Phlebotomist (currently playing at Hampstead Theatre) is part of a growing trend of plays dealing with surviving the everyday. It has thematic resonances with Mike Bartlett’s Game, Philip Ridley’s Radiant Vermin and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, …
Network at the National Theatre
This post originally appeared on the CityLIS blog
Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 movie Network has been adapted for the stage by playwright Lee Hall. Network tells the story of Howard Beale, a middle of the road, middle aged, going nowhere fast …