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With 23 actors and myriad thorny issues to service, Oglesby necessarily favours breadth over depth, but Warchus’s propulsive production sweetens the hasty homilies. The opening montage of ministerial ...

London's Old Vic has a new artistic director after the garlanded departure of Kevin Spacey. His successor Matthew Warchus’s first production opened this week and I fear it is a dud: cliched, ...

Where to begin? Let’s start with the positives. Warchus clearly wants to restore the Old Vic’s political punch and Oglesby’s play is, at heart, an all-out attack on elitism and Britain’s ingrained, ...

I firmly believe that Matthew Warchus will achieve great things at the Old Vic. But his tenure as artistic director gets off to a shaky start with this clichéd play about education. Tamsin Oglesby has ...

British education, or rather the damage done to it by successive parliamentarians, makes Tamsin Oglesby angry. Really angry. So fired up is the author of Really Old, Like Forty Five that she's poured ...

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