‘Shining City’ is a beautiful, haunting play, and Brendan Coyle’s performance is remarkable: but Fall’s production doesn’t quite make the case for it being a classic.
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This is still a play about two profoundly lost men but the women in their lives – despite rarely appearing on stage – are more prominent, and it is their pain that begins to seep into the endless lonely silences.
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Nearly two decades after its Royal Court premiere, Shining City certainly holds up...The final moments undercut a star turn from Coyle that by rights should leave Shining City burning brightly.
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