The curse of unhappy marriages
Robert Tanitch reviews The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 -1934), who made his name with a series of popular farces, established himself as a seri ...
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Class, privilege and old-world snobbery
Robert Tanitch reviews Relative Values at Harold Pinter Theatre, London SW1 Noel Coward’s comedy was never that good. It felt dreadfully old-fashioned, even at its premiere in 1951. It was, as Coward ...
Coronation or abdication?
Robert Tanitch reviews King Charles III at Almeida Theatre, London N1 Mike Bartlett describes King Charles III as a future history play and it is the best and wittiest British play about a constitutio ...
The view is quite different now
Robert Tanitch reviews A View from the Bridge at The Young Vic, London SE1 In ancient times tragedies were always about great men and women, kings, queens, generals, figures of myth, whose fatal flaws ...