Lucy Kirkwood
The 50 best TV shows of 2022
A great year for bingeable boxsets, streaming successes and your set-top box – see what you missed as the top telly shows of the year are revealed
21, Dec, 2022 @12:59 PM
The week in TV: The Control Room; Maryland; Unvaccinated; Better Things
An emergency call handler is bombarded with improbable plot twists in the BBC’s new thriller; playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s fury sears on the small screen; and Covid vaccine sceptics get the needle
Barbara Ellen
24, Jul, 2022 @8:30 AM
On my radar: Lucy Kirkwood’s cultural highlights
The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams’s short stories
Killian Fox
25, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM
That Is Not Who I Am review – all is not what it seems in tricksy thriller about truth and power
One play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters
Kate Wyver
18, Jun, 2022 @11:01 PM
Rage, fury and noise – the new wave of feminist theatre is more vital than ever | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Plays such as Maryland, written in the wake of the killings of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, are rallying points for protest, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
25, Nov, 2021 @9:00 AM
The week in theatre: Maryland; The Tragedy of Macbeth; White Noise
Lucy Kirkwood’s raw response to the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard captures a moment of terrible rage
Susannah Clapp
17, Oct, 2021 @9:30 AM
‘This had to happen now’: Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland, her 30-minute ‘howl’ of a play
Galvanised by the killings of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard, the playwright tells how she penned the eviscerating drama in just two days
Arifa Akbar
10, Oct, 2021 @11:48 AM
TV tonight: Adult Material explores the ins and outs of the pornography industry
Lucy Kirkwood’s latest drama focuses on the world of adult film. Plus: Prince William tries to save the planet. Here’s what to watch this evening
Ammar Kalia, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett
05, Oct, 2020 @5:20 AM
At the National, the past really is a foreign place
Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin isn’t quite speaking everyone’s language
Richard Brooks
09, Feb, 2020 @9:00 AM
The week in theatre: The Welkin; Krapp’s Last Tape/ Eh Joe/ The Old Tune; The Sunset Limited – review
A pregnant question hangs over Lucy Kirkwood’s elegant new courthouse drama, while a superlative Beckett triple bill could teach Cormac McCarthy a thing or two
Kate Kellaway
26, Jan, 2020 @10:30 AM
The Welkin review – Maxine Peake leads Lucy Kirkwood's jury of matrons
Twelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer’s pregnancy claim in this admirable drama
Arifa Akbar
23, Jan, 2020 @12:04 PM
On my radar: Lucy Kirkwood’s cultural highlights
The award-winning playwright on deconstructing the Wu-Tang Clan, her love of Alasdair Gray and the genius of Jürgen Klopp
Lucy Kirkwood
12, Jan, 2020 @10:00 AM
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