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The week in theatre: Otherland; Backstroke – review

Chris Bush’s insightful take on the trans experience drifts into the fantastical; Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie spar as discomfited daughter and unabashed mother

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

Backstroke at the Donmar Warehouse review: the opposite of a good night out

2/5 I used to think I’d crawl over hard ground to watch Celia Imrie or Tamsin Grieg. Here, I felt I had

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

Backstroke review – Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie lift choppy mother-daughter drama

Greig breathes compassion into her relations with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

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Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play a mother and daughter through the ages in the bittersweet ‘Backstroke’

3/5 In between the duo’s crackling chemistry, Anna Mackmin’s new play captures the universal pain of missing someone before they’re gone

The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025

‘I’m in my early 20s most of the time… totally up for it!’: Tamsin Greig on ageing, caring and learning bass guitar

The stage and screen actor on her two, vastly different new roles – with Celia Imrie in a radical play about a woman caring for her mother after a stroke, and in a Sally Wainwright TV drama about five women who form a punk band

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2025

‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2024

Woman in Mind review – when the vicar’s wife’s worst nightmare is her own life

Jenna Russell stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s exploration of mental illness with an accomplished cast of supporting characters ably adding to the anguish

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

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