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Kiln theatre

May 2024

  • A slice of life … English.

    English review – Pulitzer-winning classroom play doesn’t quite make the grade

    Four students in Iran are under pressure to pass their foreign language exams in Sanaz Toossi’s gentle comedy that puts discussion above drama and ideas above emotion

April 2024

  • Charles Edwards and Sophie Thompson in The Ballad of Hattie and James, at the Kiln theatre.

    The Ballad of Hattie and James review – a musical friendship comes back into tune

    Sophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life

January 2024

  • Toby Park in a toga, gesturing and laughing, next to Aitor Basauri in a cloak, standing on a boat with an oar, with mist on the stage and a picture of the moon in The Frogs

    The Frogs review – Spymonkey’s search for ancient comedy and catharsis

    The Aristophanes play is interwoven with the theatre company’s personal quest in a ramshackle show that loses its way

December 2023

  • A strng record … Indhu Rubasingham.

    Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

    The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity
  • Indhu Rubasingham.

    ‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

    As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks
  • Arifa Akbar

    Indhu Rubasingham is the perfect choice for the National Theatre

    Arifa Akbar
    The NT’s newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability – and the magnificently unexpected – to her new post

November 2023

  • Cian Eagle-Service as Bruno, with Bertie Caplan (Luke) far left, and company in The Witches.

    The week in theatre: The Witches; Ghosts; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) – review

  • Sam Tutty (Dougal) and Dujonna Gift (Robin) in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), credit Marc Brenner PROD-4420

    Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) review – charming romcom is a treat

October 2023

  • Amit Sharma.

    London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

  • Barry Sloane as Yosser, punching someone, while others look on horrified, in Boys from the Blackstuff.

    The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

September 2023

  • The ever-lurking ghost … Ira Mandela Siobhan in Mlima's Tale.

    Mlima’s Tale review – haunted by the elephant who would not forget

    Ira Mandela Siobhan plays a pachyderm in Lynn Nottage’s indictment of the ivory trade, leaving traces on those who murdered him and sold his tusks

July 2023

  • Michael Billington

    The play’s the thing – but its success depends on the theatre too

    Michael Billington
  • LJ Parkinson and Emer Dineen in Modest.

    Modest review – rollicking tale of star Victorian artist

June 2023

  • In sickness and in health … Doreene Blackstock and Liz Crowther in Es & Flo

    Es & Flo review – devoted couple contend with the brutality of dementia

  • Indhu Rubasingham

    ‘Rare talent’: Kiln artistic director stands down after 10 years

April 2023

  • Bobby (Ian Bonar), and Sidney (Ivanno Jeremiah) in Retrograde at the Kiln theatre

    The week in theatre: Retrograde; The Secret Life of Bees; Dixon and Daughters – review

  • Mamet-like exchanges … Sidney (Ivanno Jeremiah), Bobby (Ian Bonar), and Mr Parks (Daniel Lapaine) in Retrograde.

    Retrograde review – toxicity meets integrity in exceptional Sidney Poitier drama

September 2022

  • A scene from Handbagged by Moira Buffini @ Kiln Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

    Moira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; and a driving lesson for us all
  • Charming … (l-r) Abigail Cruttenden, Kate Fahy, Marion Bailey and Naomi Frederick in Handbagged.

    Handbagged review – sparks fly at the Queen’s audiences with the Iron Lady

    Moira Buffini’s clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch
  • Abigail Cruttenden, front left, and Marion Bailey, back right, play the Queen in Handbagged. Naomi Frederick and Kate Fahy play the younger and older versions of Thatcher respectively.

    ‘The audience want to connect with her’: portraying the Queen after her death

    The Kiln theatre’s Handbagged, about the monarch’s meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play’s humour and their tears in rehearsal
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