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Review: Lay Down Your Cross – Hampstead Theatre

Ever had that feeling in theatre that you’d rather be watching paint dry? Well in Nick Payne’s Lay Down Your Cross, for a few minutes at least you can do just that. Lay Down Your Cross takes realism to a whole new level, dialogue here is played out in real time, every pause, every stutter,…

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Review: Electra – Latitude Festival

There’s something chilling about sitting alfresco in the Suffolk sunshine on a Sunday morning, being snowed on by (fake snow) and watching a 2000 year old play about family murder and matricide. Sophocles’ Electra has been given a gripping adaptation by Nick Payne and brought to Latitude by the Gate Theatre. In a festival environment…

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