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It mightn’t quite be the droll, dry Churchill we know, but it’s certainly one we should greet. Absorbing.
Pacing is fleet, inexorable, even with those frozen minutes of contemporary video. Unmissable.
We need Summerfolk. Sided and slant, this version is a must-see. And almost as much as Chekhov, we need more Gorky.
As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.
The Playboy of the Western World
An impossible balance, but having seen Playboy at farce-speed, it’s good to weigh in with a loquacious backbeat of despair. Wholly absorbing.
The Norwegian Ibsen company - and here Kåre Conradi - are doing for Ibsen what Conor Lovett and Gare St Lazare are doing for Beckett. And both are to be found at the Coronet.
A rich, suggestive and above all probing work about how we live with our ghosts so we can live with each other.
