(Community Matters) Three days, four shows – that’s how Steven rolls in London; I made three.
Misterman (at the Royal National Theatre): Steven saw this in matinee. A one-man play about grief & loneliness. Steven noted some good parts but maybe they didn’t all come together.
Detroit (at the Royal National Theatre): Steven knows playwright Lisa D’Amour from playwriting courses at UT. She was a student of David Marc Cohen. Steppenwolf first presented Detroit. Raw & honest characters who had conversations outside my increasingly rarefied bubble – made me mindful of this. Major career coup to have her show presented at the National; Broadway appears to be in negotiation.
Collaborators (at the Royal National Theatre): a fun and fantastical play about Josef Stalin and the writer MIkhail Bulgakov. They just don’t miss on the acting and staging at RNT.
Tenet (at the Gate Theatre); loved entering the theatre while offered tea & biscuits. The show was fun. More opportunities than seized to promote how the truth is achievable with a little radicalism.
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