
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
There are no words in this startling physical production from Palestinian theatre company, Khashabi. A battered mannequin lies splayed on a bare stage. A huddle of women carry on bodies, gashed, broken-boned and in one case, headless. These are their children, grown-up, lifeless, eternally loved. Sometimes you think their words are coming, in pregnant pauses when they stand before microphones, as if about to speak. Yet no words emerge.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Arifa Akbar
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theguardian.com | Arifa Akbar
This is not the first production of George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned 1893 play about a mother-daughter reckoning to cast a real-life mother and daughter. Caroline and Rose Quentin performed it together at Theatre Royal Bath in 2022. Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter here make a more compelling double act and bring an added frisson to the play’s intimacies and disputes. Carter plays Vivie, a no-nonsense young woman with ambitions to take up the legal profession.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Arifa Akbar
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