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Jun 26, 2024 · The Old Vic must have known The Constituent would be timely when they programmed it, but at that point the odds of Joe Penhall’s riveting new political drama opening just a week before...
Jun 26, 2024 · It’s not hard to see why James Corden might have opted to make his return to the London stage after 12 years in a topical play by Joe Penhall. The Constituent offers him the chance to flex a...
Jun 26, 2024 · ‘Motherland’ star Anna Maxwell Martin and James Corden have to battle with starchy direction and a clunky script in Joe Penhall’s new play about the threats facing MPs
Jun 26, 2024 · James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin in The Constituent, © Manuel Harlan. Integrity and basic human decency come under the spotlight and are found wanting in Joe Penhall’s new play, his first since the disappointing Mood Music, also seen here at the Old Vic in 2018.
Jun 15, 2024 · Corden plays Alec in this Joe Penhall (Mood Music, Old Vic) play who is installing a security camera and alarm in the constituency office of Monica, a woman he used to go to school with, and who is now the MP representing the area.
Jun 26, 2024 · Yet, Joe Penhall’s new drama delights in wrongfooting us, in subverting the expectations he so carefully crafts. When we first encounter Alec (Corden), he is in full-on Smithy-schtick,...
Jun 26, 2024 · Is there room for compassion in politics? It’s a potent question during this febrile election campaign, the timing of which makes Joe Penhall’s sharp new play The Constituent even more topical.
