Kafka, Boxers and Maxine Peake: Editor's Choice - Theatre

Kafka, Boxers and Maxine Peake: Editor's Choice - Theatre

08 July, 2011
by: Naima Khan

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Naima Khan selects her top three plays


From Monday 11th July
Lay Me Down Softly
@ Tricycle Theatre
Billy Roche's play about a narcissistic carnival boxer who faces a new challenge when he finds out a professional boxer is out to get him.

From Monday 11th July
In The Penal Colony @ The Young Vic
As part of Shubbak Festival, Amir Nizar Zuabi and the ShiberHur Theatre Company adapt Kafka's superb short story.  In a prison camp, an execution is about to be interrupted.


From Thursday 14th July
Loyalty @ Hampstead Theatre
This is so exciting! Maxine Peake plays the wife of a senior cabinet member as the country launches itself into war with Iraq. The writer and journalist Sarah Helm is the wife of then Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell.

 

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