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Heather Neill

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Heather Neill is a critic and theatre writer. She was Arts Editor of The Times Educational Supplement and has contributed features to The Times, Telegraph and theatre programmes. She reviews for The Stage, interviews for theatrevoice.com and has been a judge of the Offies and the Theatre Book Prize and an assessor for NT Connections.

Articles By Heather Neill

Ian McKellen On Stage, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a master relishes the joy of theatre

Thursday, 03 October 2019 Read more...

Blood Wedding, Young Vic review - inventive, poetic if over-stretched revival of Lorca's rural tragedy

Thursday, 26 September 2019 Read more...

A Doll's House, Lyric Hammersmith review - Ibsen tellingly transposed to colonial India

Thursday, 12 September 2019 Read more...

The Girl on the Train, Duke of York's Theatre review - boozy psycho-thriller rolls clunkily into town

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Lia Williams on the challenges of theatre

Sunday, 14 July 2019 Read more...

Death of a Salesman, Young Vic review - new-minted revival of a masterpiece

Friday, 10 May 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: playwright William Nicholson

Saturday, 27 April 2019 Read more...

Mary's Babies, Jermyn Street Theatre review - rollercoaster investigation of early fertility treatment

Tuesday, 26 March 2019 Read more...

Tartuffe, National Theatre review - morality-heavy version of the comedy classic

Friday, 22 February 2019 Read more...

Agnes Colander, Jermyn Street Theatre review - Naomi Frederick shines in 'new' Granville Barker

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 Read more...

Ralegh: the Treason Trial, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - gripping verbatim court case

Thursday, 29 November 2018 Read more...

Robert Hastie: 'a seam of love runs through the play' - interview

Monday, 12 November 2018 Read more...

Don Quixote, Garrick Theatre review - riotous revival of Cervantes' much-loved chivalric tale

Friday, 09 November 2018 Read more...

Macbeth, RSC, Barbican review - Shakespeare's blood-boltered tragedy, tense but flawed

Wednesday, 24 October 2018 Read more...

Pinter at the Pinter, Harold Pinter Theatre review - harrowing and comic short pieces from the master

Friday, 28 September 2018 Read more...

Square Rounds, Finborough Theatre review - the science behind warfare, told in verse

Saturday, 08 September 2018 Read more...

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