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The Children at Lyric Hammersmith: Meera Syal excellent in post-apocalyptic drama

4/5 Lucy Kirkwood’s play shows three people pitched together in a cottage after a nuclear power plant disaster

Evening Standard · Sep 14

The Children review – Meera Syal and co go nuclear in poignant drama

A catastrophic explosion forces retired nuclear engineers Syal and Declan Conlon to confront their past after a visit by Kerry Fox in this revival of Lucy Kirkwood’s debut

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

End at National Theatre: 'Performed with great subtlety by Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves'

4/5 Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves reunite to complete David Eldridge’s trilogy about couples

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2025

Faith Healer at the Lyric Hammersmith review: riveting performances in a pitch-perfect revival

This emotionally dense production of Brian Friel’s eloquent play about memory, love and belief is the latest example of why the Lyric is one of London’s most interesting theatres right now

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024

Minority Report drama to feature in Lyric Hammersmith’s ‘really bold’ spring lineup

Tom Cruise’s character becomes Dame Julia in a new adaptation of Minority Report, kicking off a season that, the venue’s artistic director says, will focus on communal experience

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

Babygrows are such sweet sorrow: Romeo and Juliet get a gritty romcom reboot

Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in Cardiff

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023