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Pride review: Loving musical adaptation of the feel-good film

4/5

Evening Standard · Jun 26

‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse

She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2025

Ben and Imo at Orange Tree Theatre review: a small gem of a play

4/5 Erica Whyman’s efficient production retells the story of how Benjamin Britten’s catastrophic Coronation piece Gloriana was created

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025

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Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen review – hilarity and heartbreak

From the producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, this brilliantly ambiguous one-man show poses the question: does standup comedy need to be true?

The Guardian - AU · Jan 16, 2025

Ben and Imo review – Mark Ravenhill races Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst towards a coronation deadline

Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates as the composer and his ‘assistant’ test the limits of collaboration as they work towards the completion of Britten’s 1953 opera Gloriana

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen at the Bush review: fast, filthy and powerful

Former History Boy Samuel Barnett never puts a foot wrong in this short but perfectly formed monologue

Evening Standard · Nov 16, 2023

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen review – seriously funny

Samuel Barnett is remarkable in Marcelo Dos Santos’s one-man play which analyses joke-craft and a comedian’s compulsions

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2022

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‘I want to do things I’ve never done’: The History Boys’ Samuel Barnett on his new one-man show

Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbered

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2022

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