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Sep 4, 2024 · James McArdle is brilliant as a self-absorbed playwright trying to depict matters of the heart.
Sep 4, 2024 · James McArdle, often a gruff and husky presence, is a revelation here as the Stoppard-esque playwright Henry, prone to snobbery and lofty mansplaining while also dithering over his populist song...
Sep 4, 2024 · Bel Powley and James McCardle are wondrous in Tom Stoppard's frustrating play about truth and lies. The Real Thing remains ultimately unknowable all these years later. By Anya Ryan. 4 September 2024. The Real Thing. Manuel Harlan. There’s no doubt that Tom Stoppard’s 1982 comedy about truth and lies, art and reality, is a feat of illusion.
- Anya Ryan
Sep 4, 2024 · James McArdle and Bel Powley star in the Old Vic’s revival of Stoppard’s tricksy, self-parodical play, but it feels dated to watch middle class couples being beastly to each...
- Alice Saville
Sep 13, 2024 · James McArdle in The Real Thing. Old Vic | ★★★★ . Since his Holocaust play Leopoldstadt much of the talk surrounding Tom Stoppard – for many the greatest living playwright – has been about what...
- John Nathan
Sep 12, 2024 · At the heart of Max Webster's sophisticated revival is a "sensational performance" from James McArdle, who beautifully conveys both Henry's "monstrous self-satisfaction and his deep and abiding...
Sep 4, 2024 · A superb James McArdle plays Henry, Stoppard’s semi-autobiographical, self-lacerating portrait of a pedantic-to-a-fault playwright who is married to one actress, Charlotte, and sleeping with another, Annie. This metatheatrical project gained extra frisson from Stoppard, in real life, subsequently beginning an affair with his star ...