The Secret River London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (1)
See it if the subject matter interests you.
Don't see it if can't sit through long runtime.
Critic Reviews (4)
The leads are personable and Neil Armfield’s production features more decent roles for indigenous actors than I’ve seen in any Aussie play in London. But... there’s a looming sense of self-congratulation in this cultural expiation for past sins.'
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Neil Armfield’s resonant, turbulent production..sing[s] out from the stage of the Olivier like an epic, with its conflicts, culture clashes, and quest for new territories... A resonant tragedy of mutual incomprehension.'
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Ola Ince’s direction demands a little too much open-mouthed astonishment from her actors, but Steven Mackintosh is good as a career-troubled yuppie and Isabella Pappas shows promise playing an omigod teenage girl.'
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This is an all-encompassing play that has you laughing one minute and on the verge of tears the next. A devastating eye-opener... presented with great sensitivity and craft.'
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