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Articles, reviews, etc
(Critics from the national press will review the show on 8 April at the start of the London run)
Review: Guardian
4 STARS "Barry captures excellently Dickens' dynamic restlessness and the sense that his supposedly contented family life was one of his greatest fictions... The tone of the play is sad, quiet, reflective: something beautifully brought out in Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint production interspersed with familiar folk songs..."
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Interview: Time Out
"I'm not saying that there's anything true about it... What you're looking for is to make a bell out of cheap metal, so that when you hit it, it has the ring of truth"
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Review: Country Life
"Max Stafford-Clark's immaculate Out of Joint production of this scintilating new play"
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Interview: Niamh Cusack, Official London Theatre
"Catherine Dickens was almost too real for him... the women in his books are either incredibly good, fine people or monstrous women, but there's rarely a very multi-dimensional, complex woman. And I think that everything that Catherine brought to the table - she had 10 children, she did have post-natal depression, she knew him very well - perhaps that wasn't what he wanted at that time of his life"
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Review: Morning Star
"Sebastian Barry, probably the best playwright writing in English today, has written a beautiful evocation... This is an absorbing and hugely intelligent play, excellently served by Max Stafford-Clark and his wonderful Out of Joint Theatre company"
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David Rintoul: "My Life" interview
"If I hadn't been an actor I'd have liked to have done something to do with horses - a racehorse trainer or even better a cowboy."
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Niamh Cusack & David Rintoul TV interview
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Review: Uktheatre.net
"A dream meeting of fine writer, superlative cast and top notch production."
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Review: British Theatre Guide (Leeds)
"Magnificent... an intelligent text, brilliant acting and a cornucopia of light, movement and sound... Theatre gets no better."
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Review: British Theatre Guide (Manchester)
"A complex tale told clearly and intelligently... This is a play with a great deal of humour, intelligence and emotion."
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Danny Sapani: Five Reasons to See Andersen's English
"It is a story of great passion, love and loss... Sebastian has a real gift for conjuring bizarre and wonderful situations in which his characters interact"
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Review: DigYorkshire
4 stars "Sebastian Barry makes a big comeback with the bittersweet tale of Andersen's English"
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Review: Southampton Daily Echo
"a thought-provoking and extraordinary play... as the eloquent yet tortured Dickens, David Rintoul is utterley convincing... a unique and probing appraisal of two giants of literature"
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Sebastian Barry in The Guardian on working with Max Stafford-Clark
"In rehearsals he was always, it seemed, well ahead of us, but didn;t mind waiting til we caught up"
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Niamh Cusack interviewed in Metro
"Charles was a huge ego and a bit of a bully"
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Review: Whatsonstage
5 stars "It's beautifully written and the story is a fascinating one."
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Review: East Anglian Daily Times
"Dickens is brought to life splendidly by David Rintoul... Catherine is made a glowing presence by the excellent Naimh Cusack... the brilliance of Danny Sapani's performance"
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Sebastian Barry interviewed in The Times
"Writing's a little bit heroic, but also a bit shifty... Dickens was on the £10 note. you don't say anything bad about a man who's been on a note. Particularly if you're Irish."
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Max Stafford-Clark in the East Anglian Daily Times
"In rehearsal I have referred to it as a Tiger Woods play - in so much as it is about a popular figure who, surprise, surprise, turns out to have feet of clay"
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