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Creditors at Orange Tree Theatre: 'the production just lies there, inert, on the stage'

2/5 Despite an excellent cast including Charles Dance, this Strindberg psychodrama fails to spark

Evening Standard · Sep 17, 2025

Creditors review – Charles Dance, Geraldine James and Nicholas Farrell get gasps and guffaws from Strindberg

Director Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish dark tragedian’s play about how people use each other up in love and art

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2025

The week in theatre: Unicorn; Churchill in Moscow – review

Erin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett’s witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes a magnificent Churchill in Howard Brenton’s broad-brush latest

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025