Sam Marlowe
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- Bio
- Sam trained as an actor, and began her writing career as a critic and features writer for What's On In London magazine. She later became the magazine's theatre editor, before going on to work at The Independent, where she regularly contributed arts features. She is now a freelance arts journalist and regular theatre critic for The Times and Time Out, and judge for Theatre Awards UK (formerly the TMA Awards).
Articles by Sam Marlowe
The Victorian in the Wall, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Friday, 17 May 2013
The past: it’s etched into the fabric not just of our lives, but of the architecture that surrounds us – the streets we tread, the buildings where we work or make our homes. In this whimsical,... Read more... |
Passion Play, Duke of York's Theatre
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
What’s the price of betrayal? In Peter Nichols’s 1981 play it’s a painful splintering of the psyche. The betrayer mentally compartmentalises in order to be both affectionate husband and ardent lover... Read more... |
Othello, National Theatre
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
It’s apt that a drama set among soldiers should be presented with military precision; but corruption, cruelty and perversion can lurk amid the human innards of the machine of war, and in Nicholas... Read more... |
The Life of Stuff, Theatre503
Saturday, 20 April 2013
A severed toe, a shotgun, copious blood, vomit and snot, and a live snake. Sprinkle them liberally with Shake’n’Vac masquerading as cocaine, douse in booze, piss and petrol, set the whole lot alight... Read more... |
Peter and Alice, Noël Coward Theatre
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
What becomes of children “born out of sadness and loneliness”, exiled from Wonderland or Neverland, longing for remembered golden afternoons, but forced to confront the chilly twilight of adulthood?... Read more... |
The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre
Friday, 22 March 2013
It’s one of the most anticipated theatrical openings of the year, with tickets allegedly changing hands for astronomical sums and some pundits rushing to issue dire warnings of the depths of its... Read more... |
Watt, Barbican Pit Theatre
Friday, 01 March 2013
It begins with a tall, thin man walking out of light and into darkness. There is much that remains murky in Barry McGovern’s adaptation of this novel by Samuel Beckett, written between 1941 and 1945... Read more... |
Privates on Parade, Noël Coward Theatre
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
It’s brash, jolly, stuffed with wildly politically incorrect language, double entendres and spoof-laden song and dance. But beneath its brightly painted face, its stockings, suspenders and corsets,... Read more... |
Kiss Me Kate, Old Vic Theatre
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Cole Porter’s musical spin on Shakespeare demands the fluidity, fizz and acidity of champagne. In Trevor Nunn’s revival, which transfers to London after a successful run in Chichester, it’s more like... Read more... |
Uncle Vanya, Vaudeville Theatre
Saturday, 03 November 2012
The Russians are coming next week, when the Moscow company Vakhtangov bring their production of Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comic drama of dissipated lives and squandered love to the West End. But first,... Read more... |
Berenice, Donmar Warehouse
Wednesday, 03 October 2012
It’s not often that the works of 17th-century French classicist playwright Jean Racine make an appearance in the West End, and you can’t fault the ambition of the Donmar’s artistic director, ... Read more... |
King Lear, Almeida Theatre
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
He arrives in a blaze of light and trumpets, but Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear seems as much charming, lovable father as imposing monarch as he sets about carving up his kingdom. What follows, though,... Read more... |
The Physicists, Donmar Warehouse
Friday, 08 June 2012
If you weren’t sick when you arrived at Les Cerisiers, the private psychiatric hospital in this satiric early Sixties drama by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt, you probably would be by the time... Read more... |
Absent Friends, Harold Pinter Theatre
Friday, 10 February 2012
One look at Tom Scutt’s meticulous design for Jeremy Herrin’s production of this savage Alan Ayckbourn comedy, and you know you’re in the 1970s. Wood veneer and faux leather lend a shiny, wipe-clean... Read more... |
Travelling Light, National Theatre
Thursday, 19 January 2012
An interfering producer, an accountant who keeps trying to cut corners and costs, even a casting couch – making movies was never easy, according to this amiable new play by Nicholas Wright. Set in... Read more... |
The Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Sex, spending, violence and debt: life in the city is lived raw in this caustic interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy by Dominic Cooke. The setting is grimy, graffiti-daubed; shiny apartment blocks... Read more... |
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