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Robert Tanitch reviews Peter Gill’s Something in the Air at Jermyn Street Theatre, London

Admirers of Peter Gill’s work as a director, notable for his productions of Chekhov and D H Lawrence, and admirers of Peter Gill’s work as a dramatist, notable for the award-winning The York Realist, ...

andrew 577 views 0 likes Oct 24, 2022

Thanks to a strong cast, this play presents a moving, poignant slice of life

Eileen Caiger Gray reviews The York Realist at the Crucible, Sheffield (March 28th 2018) Written in 2001 by non-Yorkshireman Peter Gill, The York Realist is set in 1960’s rural Yorkshire, a gent ...

Mark 1958 views 0 likes Apr 3, 2018

I live here. I live here. You can’t see that though. You can’t see it. This is where I live. Here.”

Robert Tanitch reviews The York Realist at Donmar Theatre, London WC2 Peter Gill’s beautifully understated sad drama premiered at the Royal Court in 2002. Set in the early 1960s, it feels like a Royal ...

Mark 2480 views 0 likes Feb 19, 2018