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The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

Anupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022

My Fair Lady review: Amara Okereke shines as Eliza Doolittle in Bartlett Sher’s glossy musical

Director wrings every last drop of comic potential out of classic musical

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022

My Fair Lady review – perfectly elegant, ever so sedate

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins are back in a time capsule of nice frocks, great tunes and comic bickering – but it’s solid not spectacular

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2022

The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2022

Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Mike Bartlett’s social pastiche is showy but insubstantial

This contemporary Restoration comedy is one of Bartlett’s sketchier works

Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2022

Cabaret’s Elliot Levey: ‘This Passover, an exodus is happening in real time’

As Jews prepare to recount the escape from Egypt over the Seder night, the Olivier award-winning actor reflects on his personal connection to the Ukrainian conflict

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2022

The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2022

The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2022

Lydia Wilson: ‘People slightly take the brakes off their misogyny when they talk about Ivanka Trump’

Eight years after playing Kate Middleton in a ‘future history’ play, the British actor is now playing Donald Trump’s ‘ambiguous’ daughter Ivanka in another. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about offensive casting, disgusted audiences, and why theatre actors need to get their hands dirty

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022