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Britain has so many stories. The reason we fund the arts together is so we can tell them

Dear England, Ink, Sherwood … I owe my career to publicly funded art. Never downplay it: it’s how we speak to each other, says author and playwright James Graham

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From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup

There’s just one day to go till it all kicks off in Canada, Mexico and the US. Here’s the best TV and film to get you into the mood for the biggest football tournament in history

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Dear England review – Joseph Fiennes’s Gareth Southgate is a total caricature on TV

This television transfer of the hit play has a great cast and impressive footballing scenes. But the manager feels like a cross between Harold Steptoe and Captain Darling from Blackadder Goes Forth

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Dear England review – Cringe-inducing Gareth Southgate drama makes even Ted Lasso look subtle

2/5 James Graham’s state-of-the-nation footballing drama doesn’t have what it takes to make it past the group stage

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How to watch Dear England — stream new drama charting Gareth Southgate's revival of the Three Lions

Here's how to watch Dear England online and from anywhere in the world as the hit play about Gareth Southgate's tenure as Three Lions boss makes its TV debut.

FourFourTwo

Jodie Whittaker: ‘Just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean you should avoid it’

The controversy around Jodie Whittaker’s casting in Doctor Who is long gone for the actor, who after a string of TV hits is on to another winner in the new World Cup drama Dear England

Evening Standard

Jodie Whittaker: Gareth Southgate a ‘revolutionary’ football manager

The BBC adaptation of Dear England was created following a successful West End production that also starred Joseph Fiennes in the lead role.

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Observer’s editor-in-chief to deliver MacTaggart lecture on media landscape

He follows in the footsteps of keynote speakers including Dear England playwright James Graham and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Evening Standard

Jodie Whittaker and Jason Watkins to join BBC’s Dear England cast

Whittaker, who played Doctor Who and starred in Toxic Town, is set to join the series as Pippa Grange, the England men’s team’s psychologist.

Evening Standard

Dear England review – footballing reboot adds extra time for Gareth Southgate’s exit

James Graham has rewritten parts of his hit play to reflect the 2024 Euros, and the gaffer emerges as a progressive, gentle, alternative national leader

The Guardian - UK

Gareth Southgate’s inclusive, caring England team is a victory greater than any on the pitch

More than anything, his legacy will be in reminding English fans that we are all on the same team, says author Mihir Bose

The Guardian - UK

Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today

The Guardian - UK

Dear England: everything we know

Dear England is based on the acclaimed National Theatre play about Gareth Southgate's Three Lions

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Dear England review - the West End reimagining of Gareth Southgate’s England tenure is ‘So good! So good! So good!’

FourFourTwo visited the Prince Edward Theatre to watch the National Theatre’s dramatisation of Gareth Southgate and the modern day England team

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Dear England: 'feelgood' Gareth Southgate play reviewed by a sports coaching expert

Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, immaculately encapsulates the light and dark sides of the game.

The Week

Dear England review: James Graham ‘hits the back of the net’ once again

Since 1966, the England men’s football team has had an unerring ability to dash a nation’s dreams, said Andrzej Lukowski in Time Out. So a play about the squad’s supposed “resurrection” under manager Gareth Southgate feels “potentially hubristic” – and at risk of “dangerously overhyping a gifted man who still…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review

Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note

Evening Standard

Dear England at the National Theatre makes an unlikely stage hero out of Gareth Southgate

Our football correspondent puts on his commentators’ hat for the National Theatre’s latest kickabout

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Dear England at the National Theatre review: James Graham scores again with this thrilling football drama

The Nottingham playmaker takes on the England football team’s recent highs and lows in a brilliant fusion of sport and art

Evening Standard

Dear England: ‘Footballers are like the modern Gladiator; stadiums are our Colosseums’

James Graham’s latest play unearths the Shakespearean dramas within the great game, and finds an unlikely hero in Gareth Southgate

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s something Shakespearean about Gareth Southgate’: the epic play about England’s hero

He came back from a disastrous penalty to reignite the English men’s football team – and inspire a country in the grip of gloom. Writer James Graham reveals how he turned the ‘quiet guy doing The Impossible Job’ into gripping drama

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Joseph Fiennes cast as Gareth Southgate in National Theatre play

James Graham’s Dear England follows ‘gentle revolution’ implemented by men’s football manager

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