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Duncan Macmillan

May 2024

  • Denise Gough in People, Places And Things at Trafalgar theatre, London.

    People, Places and Things review – Denise Gough reprises a shattering story of addiction

    The Olivier award-winner returns to her role as an actor in rehab in Duncan Macmillan’s brutally powerful play

March 2024

  • Denise Gough in People, Places and Things in 2016.

    Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

    Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

February 2024

  • Matt Smith as Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People.

    An Enemy of the People review – Matt Smith’s groovy firebrand swings from rebel to conspiracist

    Rock’n’roll reimagining of Ibsen’s timeless corruption drama brings the audience into direct Question Time-style dialogue with Smith’s idealist revolutionary

January 2022

  • Amy Conroy in Every Brilliant Thing

    Every Brilliant Thing review – ode to life’s joys is candid and compassionate

    With a jazzy soundtrack and heaps of audience participation, this pared-back production manages to find light in the darkness of depression

June 2020

  • Matt Smith and Claire Foy in a dress rehearsal for Lungs: In Camera at the Old Vic.

    Lungs: In Camera review – Claire Foy and Matt Smith mix the personal and planetary

    In a physically distanced stage production, performed live to a Zoom audience, Duncan Macmillan’s play acquires new pertinence

May 2020

  • Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson in Grounded by Duncan Macmillan, directed by Jeremy Herrin

    Lockdown culture
    Unprecedented review – making gripping drama out of corona crisis

    Headlong’s superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton

October 2019

  • Matt Smith and Claire Foy in Lungs

    The week in theatre: [Blank]; Lungs; Vassa – review

  • Claire Foy and Matt Smith in Lungs.

    Lungs review – Claire Foy and Matt Smith shine in climate crisis drama

May 2019

  • Hayley-Atwell, centre, as Rebecca West in Rosmersholm.

    Hayley Atwell: how I fell for a blazing feminist who fascinated Freud

  • Rosmersholm by Ibsen, , Writer - Henrik Ibsen, Director - Ian Rickson, Set and Costume designer - Rae Smith, Lighting - Neil Austin, Duke of Yorks Theatre, West end, London, 2019, Credit: Johan Persson/

    Rosmersholm review – Atwell and Burke are breathtaking in Ibsen masterpiece

April 2019

  • Claire Foy and Matt Smith starred as the Queen and Prince Philip in The Crown.

    From the palace to Ikea: The Crown's Foy and Smith reunite for Old Vic run

    Pair to star in two-hander Lungs as theatre also reveals a Beckett double bill with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming

July 2017

  • Teh Internet is Serious Business at the Royal Court

    The Guardian picture essay
    'How does the internet feel?' Chloe Lamford's astounding stage designs - in pictures

    Hacktivists in ball pools, teenagers riding unicorns and a world powered by actors on bikes … Chloe Lamford’s playful sets take audiences by surprise. She explains how she creates them

March 2017

  • Mark Edel-Hunt, Jack Tarlton and Vivienne Acheampong in City of Glass

    City of Glass review – Paul Auster's meta-mystery gets a stunning staging

    Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of Auster’s story becomes a jaw-dropping spectacle, but the cunning visuals come at the expense of emotional engagement

February 2017

  • West End production

    1984: West End's hit adaptation set for Broadway, Australian cast announced

    Described as ‘horribly relevant’ by its directors, the global tour of the acclaimed production follows a surge in sales for Orwell’s seminal novel

September 2016

  • Paul Auster

    Paul Auster's meta-thriller City of Glass coming to the stage in 2017

    Duncan Macmillan and 59 Productions’ adaptation of Auster’s innovative detective novel will have its world premiere in Manchester

June 2016

  • Ruth Marie Kröger as Clara in The Forbidden Zone.

    The Forbidden Zone review – poisoned by a ‘higher form of killing’

    The harrowing legacy of German chemist Fritz Haber as seen by his wife and granddaughter

May 2016

  • Jenny König in The Forbidden Zone

    The Forbidden Zone review – Katie Mitchell probes the science of war

    Mitchell, playwright Duncan Macmillan, video artist Leo Warner and a band of onstage camera operators deliver a close-up view of wartime dilemmas

April 2016

  • Denise Gough, actress.

    Theatre blog
    People, Places and Things is a triumph for Denise Gough – and for equality

    With her Olivier-winning performance in People, Places and Things, Denise Gough played a role that is all too rare for women – one where she explores what it is to be human, rather than female. We need many more like it

March 2016

  • Denise Gough, actress.

    Denise Gough: 'I've seen people die from addiction'

    Denise Gough has been horrifying audiences – and scoring rave reviews – for her portrayal of an addict in People, Places and Things. The Irish actor talks about being one of 11 siblings, snorting icing sugar – and the day she ripped out Meryl Streep’s earring

October 2015

  • Lungs starring Kate Aitkinson and Bert LaBonte

    The Guide Australia: theatre listings
    Lungs

    Arts Centre Melbourne
    11 February – 19 March 2016
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