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The play that made Robert Bolt’s reputation

The play that made Robert Bolt’s reputation

Robert Tanitch reviews Flowering Cherry at Finborough Theatre, London SW10 Robert Bolt is best remembered today for The Man for All Seasons (with Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More on stage and film) an ...
Kenneth Branagh is back in the West End

Kenneth Branagh is back in the West End

Robert Tanitch reviews The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, London WC2 The good news is Kenneth Branagh is back on the West End stage after a very long absence with a year-long season of plays. He op ...
Do-it-yourself abortion for beginners

Do-it-yourself abortion for beginners

Robert Tanitch Reviews Dry Land at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1. Ruby Rae Spiegel wrote Dry Land when she was 21 and an undergraduate at Yale University.  Hannah Hauer-King’s production is its UK ...
“Now am I in Arden, the more fool I.”  

“Now am I in Arden, the more fool I.”  

Robert Tanitch reviews As You Like It at National Theatre/Olivier Polly Findlay finds an original way of staging Shakespeare’s comedy pastoral which completely wrecks it. The opening scene is set in a ...