Noel coward advised that playwrights should “never come out of the same trap twice”, using a metaphor drawn from greyhound racing to mean that a new piece should always differ from its predecessor. The dramatist Mike Bartlett has shown a conspicuous example of such Cowardly courage by following his award-winning West End hit King Charles III, a mock-Shakespearian epic about the sort of monarch the Prince of Wales might make, with Game, a 55-minute piece of site-specific theatre that can almost be guaranteed not to travel beyond its premiere venue, London’s Almeida Theatre.And, just as anyone drawn to this production by their enjoyment of the royal play will struggle to recognise the dramatist, Almeida regulars will find the theatre equally unfamiliar. The building has be
19 March 2015, The Tablet
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