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Arifa Akbar

Arifa Akbar

Chief Theatre Critic at The Guardian - Arts & Culture

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    Recent Articles

    theguardian.com

    ‘Omar, what the hell are you doing in Chichester?’: when Doctor Zhivago star Sharif came to Sussex

    Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage identity
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    Heartsink review – terminally ill doctor struggles to be a patient

    Jeffrey Longford is pedantic and superior in Farine Clarke’s medical drama – griping at everything from hospital data systems to gender-neutral loos
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    ROI (Return on Investment) review – hectic venture capitalism drama...

    US businessman-turned-playwright Aaron Loeb combines medical tech concepts with knotty dilemmas and Mamet-esque dialogue
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    My mother’s best advice: wear bold, bright colours

    I used to hide away in all-black sport-core until I allowed myself to wear space-age silver dresses or a large-collared, lemony faux-fur coat
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    Top Gs Like Me review – dark comedy sees Andrew Tate-style influenc...

    Emerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV’s Adolescence
    theguardian.com

    Deep Azure review – musical marvels in Chadwick Boseman’s hip-hop t...

    The Black Panther actor’s melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic
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    Dreamscape review – dazzling hip-hop drama reclaims vital spirit of...

    Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman – played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey – are explored through words, dance and beatboxing
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    Dance of Death review – spark and mischief as humorously horrible c...

    Richard Eyre’s adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg’s original savagery
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    It Walks Around the House at Night review – jump scares and spine t...

    Award-winning writer Tim Foley’s frightfest brings an out of work actor to a country manor to burnish the myth of its resident wraith. Beware of the silhouetted hands!
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    Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in ...

    Stuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright’s finest work, this drama’s sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production
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    My Brother’s a Genius review – neurodivergent twins’ dreams take fl...

    Two siblings growing up in a high-rise search for escape and liberation in this idiosyncratic and infectious drama with a beautiful script by Debris Stevenson