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Temple by Steve Waters The Donmar Warehouse until July 25th 2015 Temple, a new play by Steve Waters, is a supposedly fictional account of the 2011 Occupy London anti capitalist group who ended up camping outside the architectural icon of St Paul’s Cathedral. The story focuses on three distinct pillars of religion: the Dean who embodies truth and sanctity, the fading tradition and self-importance shown in the Bishop of...
Closer - a play by Patrick Marber The Donmar Warehouse until 4th April 2015 www.donmarwarehouse.com The Donmar Warehouse’s revival of Patrick Marber’s 1997 award winning play has not mellowed at all and has become an even more brutal undressing of relationships. To state the obvious it’s a very male view of the world. The plot revolves round two couples entangled in some hard core emotional debates: love versus sex, truth versus...
Henry IV - a play by William Shakespeare Until 29th November 2014 www.donmarwarehouse.com Director, Phyllida Lloyd has a very different take on Shakespeare’s history play which focusses on the themes of kingship, coming of age and honour. For one, in a play that is highly masculine, there is an all female cast and that the cast is housed in the setting of a jail appears to highlight gender inequality and...