About this episode

This episode features discussions on new plays, reviews of theatre productions, and an interview with Patricia Allison from Sex Education.

A mixed bag of horror, comedy and drama this week...First up, Martina Laird's debut play Driftwood arrives at the Kiln: set in a Port of Spain gentleman's club on the eve of Trinidad's independence, it's bursting with ideas, a stellar cast, and a second act that gets quite mad. Then the gang reviews Under the Shadow at the Almeida. Leila Farzad is magnetic as a woman trapped in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War, stalked by something that may or may not be a jinn (and may or may not have rubber fingers). Producer Tim Bano sits down with Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris to discuss how War Horse, one of the most successful pieces of theatre ever made, came into being almost 20 years ago. It went very wrong before it went very right... And Patricia Allison, Sex Education's Maeve, is at the Orange Tree in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. She answers our Five Questions. Follow us on Instagram and watch us on YouTube @thelondontheatrereview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Patricia Allison

Topics covered

• theatre production
• play reviews
• interviews
• cultural commentary
• drama

Keywords

• War Horse
• Driftwood
• Under the Shadow
• Patricia Allison
• theatre reviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sex Education

Books & works: Driftwood, Under the Shadow, War Horse, Black Comedy

Places: Trinidad, Tehran

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