Death of England: Closing Time 2024
Opened: August 22, 2024Closing: September 28, 2024
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Soho Place
2 Soho Place London
There are two sides to every story.
Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise
and daughter-in-law Carly and left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’
mistakes.
Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Erin Doherty play Denise and Carly in this
thought-provoking drama that exp
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Death of England: Closing Time, Soho Place theatre review — warp-speed conclusion to trilogy on race in the UK
6 / 10
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Death of England: Closing Time review – bombshell rants fail to land as the men watch the footie
6 / 10
The cast juggle between multiple characters deftly but the tone is too screamy for the tension to build, and some deliveries are so fast that lines are swallowed. Several of the high moments of the play are lost to this, including Carly’s bombshell social-media rant. You glimpse a stronger, more searing play in a few scenes, such as Denise’s sabre-sharp diatribe on King Charles’s coronation (“A 74-year-old man is being showered with a billion quid’s worth of stolen bling”). But these are individual vignettes that do not gel as a whole, the action too hectic yet too long and loose.
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Review Roundup: DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME at @sohoplace
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 29, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 29, 2024
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Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - August 29, 2024
by Alexander Cohen - August 29, 2024
It only premiered last October, but Death of England: Closing Time, the final chapter in Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s state of the nation triptych, not only retains its spine-frosting freshness, but feels more dangerous than ever.
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by Blair Ingenthron - August 4, 2024
by Blair Ingenthron - August 4, 2024
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