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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

The Father and the Assassin, National Theatre review - Gandhi's killer puts his case in a bold, whirlwind production

Friday, 20 May 2022 Read more...

Hamlet, Young Vic review - Cush Jumbo flares in a low-key production

Wednesday, 06 October 2021 Read more...

Witness for the Prosecution, London County Hall review - return of Agatha Christie's gripping courtroom drama

Friday, 01 October 2021 Read more...

The Dumb Waiter, Old Vic: In Camera review - more in sorrow than in anger

Saturday, 10 July 2021 Read more...

Romeo and Juliet, Creation Theatre online review - game version falls between stools

Monday, 17 May 2021 Read more...

Romeo and Juliet, National Theatre online review - a triumphant hybrid

Monday, 05 April 2021 Read more...

Romeo and Juliet, Palace Theatre, Manchester online review - futuristic and timely

Friday, 12 February 2021 Read more...

Love in a Wood, Jermyn Street Theatre review - stars gather remotely for a lively online presentation

Monday, 01 February 2021 Read more...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe online review - a seasonal treat

Tuesday, 16 June 2020 Read more...

Nora: A Doll's House, Young Vic review - Ibsen diced, sliced and reinvented with poetic precision

Wednesday, 12 February 2020 Read more...

The Duchess of Malfi, Almeida Theatre review - a radically original perspective on Webster's tragedy

Wednesday, 11 December 2019 Read more...

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic Theatre review - the festive favourite mixes gloom with merriment

Thursday, 05 December 2019 Read more...

The Wind of Heaven, Finborough Theatre review - a welcome, if strange, Emlyn Williams rediscovery

Saturday, 30 November 2019 Read more...

The Taming of the Shrew, Barbican review - different but still problematic

Friday, 08 November 2019 Read more...

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...

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