Arifa Akbar
Chief Theatre Critic at The Guardian
Chief theatre critic at The Guardian / Author of 'Consumed' (2021) and 'Wolf Moon' (July 2025)
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msn.com | Arifa Akbar
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theguardian.com | Arifa Akbar
Terence Rattigan distilled the unassailable emotional permafrost that settles between his upper middle-class English couples with a singular mastery. But this production shows his late work contains genuine warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments and dishonesties of married life. Longsuffering wife Lydia (Claire Price) seems stranded in her marriage to the pompous and hectoring Sebastian (Dominic Rowan) who – quite literally – cannot change a lightbulb without her assistance.
Letters from Max review - rich reflections on life, death and nothingness from a poet who died at 25
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theguardian.com | Arifa Akbar
Sarah Ruhl first knew Max Ritvo as a student of her playwriting class at Yale. He was a 20-year-old poet who had lived through paediatric cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma. The cancer came back and he died five years later but in that time Ruhl and Ritvo wrote letters to each other with thoughts on life, death, God, faith and nothingness. That became the basis of a book published in 2018, two years after Ritvo’s death.
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theguardian.com | Arifa Akbar
Tim Firth’s musical features a family meltdown on a soggy camping holiday. First premiering in 2013, its domestic fallouts might have been unconventional fare to set to song then. But it all seems rather soft and cuddly in its comedy now.
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