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Robert Tanitch reviews Caryl Churchill’s A Number at The Old Vic in London

We’ve got ninety-nine percent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety percent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty percent the same as a lettuce. Is it nature or nurture, which dete ...

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Samuel Beckett’s bleakness can be an ordeal at the best of times

Robert Tanitch reviews Endgame and Rough for Theatre II at The Old Vic, London SW1 Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming are appearing in two plays by Samuel Beckett, one famed for its dustbins, the ultim ...

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A millennial Couple decide to have a baby. Is now a good time to be having a baby?

Robert Tanitch reviews Lungs at The Old Vic, London SE1 Duncan Macmillan’s 85-minute two-hander, a comic-tragedy, is about sex and the environment; an unbroken conversation piece, spread over weeks, m ...

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Lucy Prebble’s new play is about the murder of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko

Robert Tanitch reviews A Very Expensive Poison at The Old Vic, London SE1 Lucy Prebble had a big success in 2009 with Enron, her satire on capitalism, brilliantly directed by Rupert Gold. The source f ...

Mark 1083 views 0 likes Sep 12, 2019