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Portia Coughlan review – drama rich with secrets and mourning

Marina Carr’s play is beautifully bleak and Alison Oliver’s central performance as a woman lost in grief is matched by a mighty cast

The Guardian - UK

Portia Coughlan at the Almeida Theatre review: slice of Irish Gothic is darkly funny but unremittingly bleak

Alison Oliver is absolutely transfixing in this dark Irish Gothic tale

Evening Standard

Alison Oliver interview, reviews of Old Friends and Close Up: The Twiggy Musical - The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

This week on the Evening Standard Theatre Podcast, Conversations with Friends star Alison Oliver joins Nick Curtis to talk about playing the title role in Portia Coughlan, opening soon at the Almeida Theatre.

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Saltburn’s trailer promises a summer of debauchery

Emerald Fennell’s new thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi looks really scary

Evening Standard

Best Interests review: Unflinching Sharon Horgan drama imagines parents’ ultimate nightmare

Michael Sheen co-stars in Jack Thorne’s BBC One series about a couple driven apart over whether to stop treatment for their daughter

The Independent UK

BBC Best Interests full cast list: Who stars alongside Michael Sheen in the drama?

Welsh legend Michael Sheen joins Sharon Horgan, Conversation with Friends star Alison Oliver, Noma Dumezweni, Des McAlee, Mat Fraser, Pippa Haywood and many more

Wales Online

Best Interests cast — who's who in the four-part drama?

Best Interests cast — a who's who guide to the four-part miniseries starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen.

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‘A mum shouldn’t have to go to her child’s funeral’: Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen on making moving TV

The stars’s beautiful, haunting show follows a mother who sues the NHS to stop her child from dying. They open up about parental terror, inequality and dad dancing

The Guardian - UK

Best Interests: plot, cast, and everything we know about Jack Thorne's new drama

Best Interests tells the story of a family being driven apart by a choice no parent would ever want to make.

WhatToWatch

Children and elderly people need exercise to lead a better life

Letters: Alison Oliver says we need action to support young people to be active, and John Hopkins laments that lack of exercise is worsening the health of his eldery family members

The Guardian - UK

Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre review: a powerfully moving family portrait at a moment of change

Even if you missed all the subtext, this show would still delight in its acute depiction of family dynamics

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review

Director Rupert Goold and co have a field day with Lulu Raczka’s elusive new Jacobean folk horror; star-crossed Cardiff teenagers snare hearts and minds; and Sheridan Smith makes Willy Russell’s midlife monologue her own

The Guardian - UK

Women, Beware the Devil review – bizarre comedy horror is like Bridgerton on acid

Lulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us?

The Guardian - UK

Paul Mescal talks working with Saoirse Ronan, Conversations with Friends and his new famous moustache

Mescal is a long way from Co Kildare after making his debut at the illustrious Cannes Film Festival along with some of the world's most famous faces

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The Guardian - US

Conversations with Friends: the frustrating awkwardness of a much-hyped series

The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s first novel can’t quite bring tricky source material – repressed characters, digital communication – to life

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt, wow! I want this’: Sasha Lane and Alison Oliver on Conversations With Friends

Age, class and sexualities collide in the new TV version of Rooney’s novel. Here, its young leads discuss landing their roles in this wonky love quadrangle and how it feels to follow Normal People

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Conversations With Friends; The Time Traveler’s Wife; Floodlights; Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain?

Ragged emotions surge through the BBC’s slow-moving new Sally Rooney adaptation; The Time Traveler’s Wife is tone-deaf; and a fine drama tells the real-life story of sexual abuse in football

The Guardian - UK

Conversations With Friends review – TV so slow it must be trolling us

Sally Rooney’s second TV adaptation is an aggressively uneventful affair stuffed with meaningful looks and strained silences. Why doesn’t anyone speak? Why can’t anything happen?

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The Independent UK

Conversations with Friends review: A conspicuously de-Irished adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best book

Book based on the Irish author’s debut novel is slow, solipsistic and self-satisfied – but it has a sort of ambient appeal

Tribune News Service

Karla Peterson: Hulu's adaptation of Sally Rooney's 'Conversations with Friends' leaves many things unsaid

In Hulu's new adaption of Sally Rooney's 2017 novel "Conversations with Friends," one look on actress Alison Oliver's face is worth many flashing paragraphs of Rooney's kaleidoscopic prose.

The Independent UK

Where was Conversations with Friends filmed?

With an Irish setting and a trip to France key to the book’s plot, viewers of the Sally Rooney adaptation may be wondering where the cast went to film the series

Dublin Live

RTE host Ryan Tubridy hails 'freedom day' as Late Late Show audiences can go maskless

The host is looking forward to seeing the changes for Late Late Show audiences on Friday night

Reason

In Conversations with Friends, the Topics Always Revolve Around Sex

Hulu adaptation of 2017 book thrives on quality performances.

Dublin Live

Conversations with Friends: Release date, where to watch the new TV show and the reviews so far

Conversations with Friends comes to TV screens at the end of this week

The Independent UK

Conversations with Friends review: A conspicuously de-Irished Sally Rooney adaptation

Book based on the Irish author’s debut novel is slow, solipsistic and self-satisfied – but it has a sort of ambient appeal

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