Inventive but flawed exploration of the Litvinenko murder...It’s often funny or startling. But I didn’t feel I learned much beyond the details reported from the public inquiry into this horrible murder.'
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Prebble has bitten off more than she can chew, but she’s done it with her eyes open, and has smartly counterweighted the mad stuff with the Litvinenkos’ story.'
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I was left craving more sobriety and less vodka-bingey giddiness. Pandering to our need for escapist fun while openly commenting on that doesn’t fully lance the longstanding complacency about Russian affairs...'
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Political, engaged theatre of such scope is rare; theatre that presents its case with such flair, power, humour and emotional punch is rarer still. It's very wonderful.'
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Prebble has an amazing ability to translate true stories into compellingly alive theatrical experiences. She does so by not just staging it as a documentary, but as a jumble of impressionistic scenes...'
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It’s not for those who want a show that just gets on with the job. It is, however, as tender as it is clever, as incensed as it is inventive. It’s a wonderful one-off.'
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Lucy Prebble's Litvinenko drama fascinates...Prebble once again...tells a complex story with great clarity and adopts a variety of techniques... to create a uniquely theatrical spectacle.'
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The play touches genre after genre, constantly twisting itself, always entertaining, and finally becoming its own weird and extraordinary thing: stunningly political and superbly theatrical.'
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