GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Brutal expose of the beast in modern man
GORDON PARSONS reviews The Hairy Ape
With Arthur Miller’s centenary currently so well celebrated in British theatres, the Old Vic is to be congratulated on staging a rarely performed play by that lodestar of US drama Eugene O’Neill.
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
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The Hairy Ape at the Old Vic, London SE1
4/5
With Arthur Miller’s centenary currently so well celebrated in British theatres, the Old Vic is to be congratulated on staging a rarely performed play by that lodestar of US drama Eugene O’Neill.
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