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Marius von Mayenburg

February 2024

  • Angus Wright, John Heffernan and Dorothea Myer-Bennett in Nachtland.

    Nachtland review – a provocative plunge into art history

    The discovery of what could be a painting by Hitler leads to a moral quagmire in Patrick Marber’s punchy staging of Marius von Mayenburg’s play

July 2023

  • Marius von Mayenburg’s production of Nachtland at the Schaubühne in Berlin in 2022.

    Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

    Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

March 2017

  • Sharply funny … Charlotte Randle and Ria Zmitrowicz in Plastic

    Plastic review – sneaky middle-class satire makes audience squirm

    Marius von Mayenburg skewers pretensions and hypocrisies with this study of a self-involved family

September 2015

  • Marius von Mayenburg’s play Martyr, with Daniel O’Keefe and Natalie Radmall-Quirke.

    Martyr review – a vivid portrait of puberty and zealotry

    Marius von Mayenburg’s tricky play brilliantly puts the audience on the spot in Ramin Gray’s lively production

April 2014

  • Michael Colgan as Anton in Marius von Mayenburg's Eldorado at the Arcola, London.

    Eldorado review – 'Cryptically fascinating dystopian drama'

    What would happen if a western city suffered a military invasion like the one that visited on Iraq? Marius von Mayenburg's play seeks an answer, writes Michael Billington

March 2014

  • It Burns It All Clean

    This week's new theatre
    This week's new theatre

    Transform | A Taste Of Honey | I Can't Sing | Arcadia | Worst Wedding Ever | Eldorado

June 2008

  • The Ugly One

    A social satire that stages a modern vanity fair where identity is up for grabs is enhanced by a dazzling production, writes Michael Billington

September 2007

  • The Ugly One

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June 2000

  • Fire in the family

    Fireface Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London ****

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