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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

Bacchae, National Theatre review - cheeky, uneven version of Euripides' tragedy

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Born with Teeth, Wyndham's Theatre review - electric sparring match between Shakespeare and Marlowe

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Nye, National Theatre review - Michael Sheen's full-blooded Bevan returns to the Olivier

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In Praise of Love, Orange Tree Theatre review - subdued production of Rattigan's study of loving concealment

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The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world

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Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre review - perfectly pitched sad and merry musical mayhem

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Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly original centenary revival of O'Casey's tragi-comedy

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Being Mr Wickham, Jermyn Street Theatre review - the plausible, charming roué gives his version of events 30 years on

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Boys from the Blackstuff, National Theatre review - a lyrical, funny, affecting variation on a television classic

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Twelfth Night, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - burlesque overwhelms the darker notes in this mixed revival

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Underdog: the Other, Other Brontë, National Theatre review - enjoyably comic if caricatured sibling rivalry

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Red Pitch, @sohoplace review - the ebullient tale of teenage footballers gets a rollicking transfer

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The Enfield Haunting, Ambassadors Theatre review - muddled revisiting of famous paranormal events

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The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre review - Pinter's disturbing masterpiece is given a low-key revival

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She Stoops to Conquer, Orange Tree Theatre review - much-loved classic rumbustiously updated

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Private Lives, Ambassador's Theatre review - classy revival lacking physical excess

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