Matt Barton
Critic and Writer at WhatsOnStage
Critic and Writer at Freelance
Critic and Writer at Financial Times
Grumpy. Heart-throb. Critic @WhatsOnStage / @FT / @ObsNewReview / @MillMediaUK / @theatremagazine
Articles
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1 month ago |
ft.com | Matt Barton
The play’s not really the thing in Aviva Studios’ Hamlet Hail to the Thief, which uneasily fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead’s...
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1 month ago |
whatsonstage.com | Matt Barton
What would be your first order as the new creative director of a theatre? For the Liverpool Everyman’s Nathan Powell, the first play he’s chosen to program is his own. At first, it looks, promisingly, like the risk will pay off with a zinging, vibrant production. Jalapeño green, turmeric yellow and paprika red run through the Jamaican takeaway restaurant designed by Georgia Wilmot. The play itself, however, lacks a depth of flavour. The premise is almost identical to Tyrell Williams’ Red Pitch.
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2 months ago |
upstagereviews.wordpress.com | Matt Barton
★★★☆☆8th April 2025 • Royal CourtCan Robert Icke catch Raoul Moat? This is, in a way, the real manhunt that unfolds in Icke’s new play — his first original drama after an almost unbroken run of hits adapting or reworking classics. His experience in tracing characters’ tragic downfalls doesn’t, however, seem to have equipped him to lend his usual scalpel-like precision in cutting open the psyche of this real-life murderer. At the beginning, the hunt appears over.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Matt Barton
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theguardian.com | Matt Barton
Moments before Red or Dead begins, we watch Peter Mullan warming up. At the edge of the stage, arms windmilling, his face set in concentration, he looks like a footballer waiting to take to the pitch. In fact he’s Liverpool manager Bill Shankly. In writer-director Phillip Breen’s new play, adapted from David Peace’s book, we see Shankly take the club into the first division and on to FA and Uefa Cup victories between 1959 and his retirement in 1974.
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Horrendously overripe music, Ewan McGregor coasting while Elizabeth Debicki looks constantly incredulous at the awful lines they’ve been asked to say to each other… Lila Raicek’s Disaster Builder
Elizabeth Debicki, @katefleetwood, @iamDavidAjala, and Mirren Mack join Ewan McGregor in @LilaFein’s #MyMasterBuilder. 🎭 Wyndham’s Theatre 🗓 17 April - 12 July 🎟 https://t.co/h9SdqC5qGm https://t.co/9oiuPlm8BO
RT @ftweekend: Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a discordant union of Shakespeare and Radiohead https://t.co/hmGPnL8mMN
