The Interview
The Interview
Closed 1h 30m London: Finsbury Park
78% 5 reviews
78%
(5 Ratings)
Positive
80%
Mixed
20%
Negative
0%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Clever, Thought-provoking, Entertaining

About the Show

A new play documenting the infamous 1995 interview between Princess Diana & Martin Bashir.

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Critic Reviews (11)

BroadwayWorld
November 3rd, 2023

" 'The Interview' makes some interesting points on the morality of journalism but struggles to answer the very questions it asks."
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Theatre Weekly (UK)
November 1st, 2023

“The Interview’ draws poignant parallels to our fractured present, probing at our comforts as much as our disillusions with the media’s honesty.”
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The London Evening Standard
November 2nd, 2023

“Obviously drama and journalism have different moral codes. But even as an absolutist republican I felt uncomfortable with Maitland exploiting the dead Diana to criticise her own son, and to spout glib, pseudo-profound points.”
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The Times (UK)
November 3rd, 2023

“With the audience seated on all four sides of the bare stage, Michael Fentiman’s production evokes the goldfish bowl ambience that turned so many members of the magic circle into spies and informers.”
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Time Out London
November 6th, 2023

"It takes its subject seriously and tries to move beyond the black-and-white media takes. But in trying to make a good point it often forgets to be a good play. "
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The Guardian (UK)
November 2nd, 2023

“This crisp, questioning and perhaps too light drama argues that it was much more than that by interrogating journalistic practice and drawing (not entirely convincing) associations with today’s fake news.”
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The Telegraph (UK)
November 2nd, 2023

“This, perhaps, is the problem at the heart of this intelligent but limited drama: it doesn’t really add much to the debate about the unstable nature of truth in a climate in which everyone is clamouring to have their say...Instead we’re left in Michael Fentiman’s artfully choreographed production with the sorry human fall-out of our own deathless fascination with Diana.”
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The Stage (UK)
November 2nd, 2023

“Director Michael Fentiman’s taut staging lends the piece the unsettled energy of a noir thriller...Ultimately, Maitland leaves it to the audience to judge whether Bashir was acting in the public interest, or simply in service to his own ambition.”
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