‘Hedda will always be painful’: Eve Allin writes on Cordelia Lynn’s Ibsen update, and the difficulty of re-writing a trapped character.
Chichester
13 August 2019
Reviews • Chichester • National
Review: 8 Hotels at Chichester Festival Theatre
1-24 August
By Neil Dowden
The green-eyed monster: Neil Dowden reviews Nicholas Wright’s drama about the dangerous rivalry between actors Paul Robeson and José Ferrer.
23 July 2018
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Review: The Meeting at Chichester Festival Theatre
July 13 - August 11
By Neil Dowden
Complex ideas and striking symbolism: Charlotte Jones makes a successful return to stage-writing with this nineteenth-century drama.
12 May 2018
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Review: random/generations at Chichester Festival Theatre
May 4 - June 2
By Eve Allin
With witnessing comes responsibility: Tinuke Craig’s double-bill debbie tucker green revival forces its audience into a community.
12 June 2017
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Review: Sweet Bird of Youth at Chichester Festival Theatre
June 2 - June 24
By Neil Dowden
Lacks real poignancy: The flaws in this little-performed Tennessee Williams are exposed in Jonathan Kent’s laboured production, says Neil Dowden.
9 May 2016
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Review: An Enemy of the People at Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre ⋄ 22nd April - 21st May 2016
By Rosemary Waugh
“The plague-infected soil of lies!” Blair Hunter-Coleridge reviews Hugh Bonneville in Christopher Hampton’s version of Ibsen.
9 August 2015
Reviews • Chichester
For Services Rendered
Minerva Theatre ⋄ 31st July - 5th September 2015
By Neil Dowden
The legacy of war.
20 October 2014
Reviews • Chichester
Gypsy
Festival Theatre ⋄ 6th October - 8th November 2014
By Tom Wicker
Exhilarating and heart-breaking.
21 July 2014
Reviews • Chichester
Amadeus
Festival Theatre ⋄ 12th July–2nd August 2014
By Neil Dowden
Music men.
24 June 2013
Reviews • Chichester
If Only
Minerva Theatre ⋄ 14th June -27th July 2013
By Neil Dowden
Glorified polemical debate.
14 July 2012
Reviews • Chichester
Heartbreak House
Festival Theatre ⋄ 6th Jul - 25th Aug 2012
By Neil Dowden
Oh Captain, my Captain
3 July 2012
Reviews • Chichester
Blue Remembered Hills
Theatre on the Fly ⋄ 26th June - 14th July 2012
By Natasha Tripney
Inside and out.
17 September 2011
Reviews • Chichester
South Downs/The Browning Version
Minerva Theatre ⋄ 2nd September - 8th October 2011
By Neil Dowden
Hare’s response to Rattigan.
29 July 2011
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The Deep Blue Sea
Festival Theatre ⋄ 13th July - 6th September 2011
By Natasha Tripney
Rattigan’s masterful play revived.
27 July 2011
Reviews • Chichester
Rattigan’s Nijinsky
Festival Theatre ⋄ 19th July - 3rd September 2011
By Natasha Tripney
Unearthing an unproduced Rattigan screenplay.