Tag Archives: The Lyttleton Theatre

Robert Tanitch reviews The Grapes of Wrath at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London.

John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. It is one of the great American novels, a powerful historical documentation and an angry condemnation of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. It be ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews London Tide at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London

Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre.

Dodie Smith (1896-1990), best known today for her novels, I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, was a prolific and highly successful playwright. She had six long-running plays in th ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre.

The National Theatre warns the play contains strong language and adult themes including references to depression, anxiety and suicide. Lucy Prebble’s award-winning clinical play about love and mental ...

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