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Robert Tanitch reviews Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House at Ambassadors Theatre, London

Theresa Rebeck’s old-fashioned American melodrama is described as a blistering dark comedy about death and madness. This dysfunctional family saga is set in rural Pennsylvania and was specifically wri ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Marivaux’s The False Servant at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey

The plays by the great French writer Marivaux, famed for their wit and subtle psychological insights, deserve to be revived more often. The marivaudage (once, but no longer, a term of abuse) needs the ...

andrew 282 views 0 likes Jun 23, 2022

Robert Tanitch reviews A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Donmar Warehouse, London

When Nora Helmer walked out on her husband and their three children in 1879, slamming the door behind her, the sound reverberated round Europe, bringing Henrik Ibsen instant success and international ...

andrew 261 views 0 likes Jun 20, 2022

Robert Tanitch reviews Scottish Ballet’s The Crucible at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

Though Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is based on the notorious witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, his powerful and chilling history play actually came out of his own experience of Senator Joe McCarthy ...

andrew 386 views 0 likes Jun 16, 2022