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The Deep Blue Sea

Lyttelton, National Theatre, London (****)

© Richard Hubert Smith, Tom Burke as Freddie Page, Helen McCrory as Hester Collyer

© Richard Hubert Smith, Tom Burke as Freddie Page, Helen McCrory as Hester Collyer

Were Terence Rattigan alive now he would be amazed at the renewed interest and popularity of his work. How fashions do change. And how he might have been amused to have not just The Deep Blue Sea running at the National but also Mike Poulton’s doppelganger, Kenny Morgan, recently at the Arcola. Continue reading

Reasons to be Happy

Hampstead Theatre, London (****)

© Manuel Harlan, Lauren O'Neil (Steph), Tom Burke (Greg)

© Manuel Harlan,
Lauren O’Neil (Steph), Tom Burke (Greg)

At the end of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, the last play at Hampstead, I wrote: `Not a great play…but observationally, sharp, sensitive, comforting and true.’ That almost sums up the American rom-com that is Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Happy.  Continue reading