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Copenhagen review – atomic secrets and moral fog in a terrifyingly timely revival

Michael Frayn’s cerebral drama of science and conscience returns with urgency – though Michael Longhurst’s production struggles to ignite its emotional core

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8

The week in theatre: Shifters; The Human Body; Nachtland – review

Benedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encounter; and a Hitler painting causes a family rift in Patrick Marber’s latest production

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024

Keeley Hawes returns to the stage in political drama at the Donmar Warehouse

The actress is returning to the stage after a decade away

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2023

Private Lives review: Dark, uptight Coward revival isn’t as revelatory as it thinks

Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence

The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2023

Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty

Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2023

Private Lives at the Donmar review: despite Mangan and Stirling this largely joyless revival fails to spark

This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts

Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2023

‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable

Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022

The best theatre to stream this month: Red Pitch, Constellations and more

Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke’s The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin’s superb solo show Shedding a Skin

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022

New season at London’s Donmar to include ‘shocking’ play on climate crisis

Dawn King’s dystopian courtroom drama The Trials, dubbed ‘12 Angry Young People’, is part of a programme that also includes European premieres of The Band’s Visit and A Doll’s House, Part 2

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2022