Brown, Mark. “Royal Court acts fast with Gaza crisis play”. The Guardian.
Michael Billington
Standard Name: Billington, Michael
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Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | In 2018 critic Michael Billington
described the play as insightful, honest, and shocking. Its shock was topical: audiences gasped when a character told he can escape deportation by securing his citizenship for fifty pounds bitterly... |
Literary responses | Gillian Slovo | Michael Billington
wrote that Slovo's skillfully edited pieceasks the right questions in a way that is clear, gripping and necessary. He also wrote: It is fascinating. But is it theatre? He then answered his... |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | The author said her play was a political event, not just a theatre event. |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
wrote that Wine in the Wilderness is about the moral value of personal truth, while Wateris about the commercial value of artistic lies. Billington, Michael. “White out”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Gillian Slovo | Michael Billington
found this play richly informative and utterly compelling. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | Michael Billington
in the Guardian called the whole ensemble an engrossing evening and a potent reminder that theatre, among its myriad other functions, has a mission to inform. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | Michael Billington
found the final section reminiscent of Samuel Beckett. He wrote: While initially it seems slight, I find it's grown steadily in the mind since I saw it. Billington, Michael. “Here We Go review’Caryl Churchill’s chilling reminder of our mortality”. theguardian.com. |
Literary responses | Pam Gems | This play brought PG
's work to the attention of critics and playgoers alike. While reviews were generally quite positive, some had difficulty accepting the play's feminist perspective. For instance, Ted Whitehead
in The Spectator... |
Literary responses | Pam Gems | Gems called her play uterine. Wandor, Michelene. Understudies. Methuen. 65 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 161 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 161 |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Michael Billington
in his biography takes the first two poems seriously, as better than Pinter's poems of the previous year. He finds alliterative exuberance in the first Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber. 29 |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | Michael Billington
in the Guardian expressed dislike for the production by Lorraine Pintal
, which in making tyranny generic deleted the specific and topical references, but found the words austerely memorable and the play superbly... |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | This play outraged the critics, putting Kane on the news pages of tabloids as well as the arts pages of broadsheets. Greig, David, and Sarah Kane. “Introduction”. Complete Plays, Methuen Drama, p. ix - xviii. x |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | This play met with European as well as British success and was filmed in 1963. The excellent reviews, a complete reversal from the catastrophic ones for Pinter's previous London opening, are ascribed by Michael Billington |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Michael Billington
in 2005 called this his least favourite of Kane's plays. Yet he recognises its complexity. While he first saw it as a poetically allusive meditation on the obsessive nature of love, he later... |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Bernard Levin
called the play, in a revival of 1978, unendurable. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 93 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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