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HISTORICAL FACTS: Lucy kirkwood - The Untold Story

The Children at Lyric Hammersmith: Meera Syal excellent in post-apocalyptic drama

4/5 Lucy Kirkwood’s play shows three people pitched together in a cottage after a nuclear power plant disaster

Evening Standard

The Children review – Meera Syal and co go nuclear in poignant drama

A catastrophic explosion forces retired nuclear engineers Syal and Declan Conlon to confront their past after a visit by Kerry Fox in this revival of Lucy Kirkwood’s debut

The Guardian - UK

The Human Body at Donmar Warehouse review: Keeley Hawes is luminous on her return to the stage

The leads are superb in this story about the early days of the NHS but the unfocused play is in need of some medical attention

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The Human Body review – Keeley Hawes and the NHS in a silver-screen romance

Hawes and Jack Davenport radiate as postwar lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s post-war romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to see in 2024: from Sarah Jessica Parker’s West End debut to Sarah Snook’s one-woman show

A-listers are treading the boards in force and your favourite films are being transformed for the stage. Jessie Thompson brings you our ultimate guide to what to see at the theatre in 2024

The Independent UK

The Witches review – frights played for fun in rollicking musical

Roald Dahl’s villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers

The Guardian - UK

The Witches at the National Theatre review: this is the Christmas show to beat

Forget the old adage 'never work with children or animals', this production has great fun with children *as* animals

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Our pick of the 50 best plays of the 21st century

The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen

Evening Standard

The week in TV: The Control Room; Maryland; Unvaccinated; Better Things

An emergency call handler is bombarded with improbable plot twists in the BBC’s new thriller; playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s fury sears on the small screen; and Covid vaccine sceptics get the needle

The Guardian - UK

Maryland review – 25 minutes of female fury that speaks for us all

Lucy Kirkwood’s rage-filled, agonisingly truthful drama about two women attacked by the same man – and the woeful police response – perfectly captures generations of anger and pain

The Guardian - UK

Maryland review: An angry, galvanising call to action on women’s safety

Short and sharp, Lucy Kirkwood’s play-turned-film is one that everyone should watch

The Independent UK

Maryland on BBC Two review: Lucy Kirkwood’s film about sexual violence is horribly, depressingly necessary

The playwright has adapted her ‘howl’ of rage, written after the murder of Sabina Nessa, for the screen

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Lucy Kirkwood’s blistering drama about sexual violence

Zawe Ashton and Hayley Squires star in a powerful short film about the treatment of rape victims. Plus: Frank Skinner on The South Bank Show. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Dancing at Dusk, Maryland and more

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes international festivals, Gemma Arterton in The Duchess of Malfi and Christopher Plummer in The Tempest

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On my radar: Lucy Kirkwood’s cultural highlights

The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams’s short stories

The Independent UK

That Is Not Who I Am review: This strange political mystery is a significant work

The playwright’s identity was subject to frenzied speculation, which was fitting for a play about online conspiracy theory-ism

The Guardian - UK

That Is Not Who I Am review – all is not what it seems in tricksy thriller about truth and power

One play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters

Evening Standard

That is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court: ‘Dave Davidson’ play is enjoyably slippery

Weird marketing ploys aside, this play on the ambiguity of truth is pleasingly hard to pin down

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