Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

A Bridge too far

Plus: a pompous vandal takes on Ibsen’s Wild Duck at the Almeida

issue 03 November 2018

  • A Very Very Very Dark Matter

    Bridge Theatre, until 6 January 2019

  • The Wild Duck

    Almeida Theatre, until 1 December

In the year since it opened, the Bridge has given us the following: a harmless Karl Marx comedy by Richard Bean; a modern-dress Julius Caesar with Ben Whishaw playing Brutus as a frowning existentialist; a dreary rustic soap opera written by newcomer Barney Norris; and an enjoyable NHS romp by Alan Bennett.

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