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Matt Barton

Matt Barton

About Matt Barton

Matt Barton is a freelance theatre critic who has written for the Financial Times, the Observer, Exeunt and WhatsOnStage.

Recent Articles

Fun Home review

Fun Home review

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Sentimentality takes centre stage in Sarah Frankcom’s emotionally over-engineered production
Summer Holiday the Musical review

Summer Holiday the Musical review

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Musical adaptation of the Cliff Richard film beams simple sunshine
The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor review

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor review

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Joyce Theater’s dull dance tribute to Sinéad O’Connor misses the singer’s transcendence
Taking the Piste review

Taking the Piste review

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Kirkby ski-slope comedy slaloms into smut instead of satire
Attachment review

Attachment review

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Monologue about motherhood gets a flat and insipid production
Mrs Dalloway review

Mrs Dalloway review

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Kit Green upstages Virginia Woolf in an overindulgent, fleetingly arresting multimedia adaptation
Even These Things review

Even These Things review

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James Macdonald directs Rory Mullarkey’s sensitive but scattershot play about the 1996 IRA bomb in Manchester
Return to the Forest review

Return to the Forest review

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Theatre-Rites and choreographer Gregory Maqoma bring ancient museum artefacts to life for a forest-set visual feast
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review

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Alexandra Wood adapts Hilary Mantel’s short story into an incendiary and provocative new play
Bank of Dave: The Musical review

Bank of Dave: The Musical review

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Rob Madge’s larky new musical, directed by Nikolai Foster, falls short of a solid investment in its social story
The Psychic review

The Psychic review

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Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s new supernatural thriller is haunted by an identity crisis
Twelfth Night review

Twelfth Night review

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Visual splendour backdrops an uneven queer reading of Shakespeare’s comedy
Conteh review

Conteh review

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Warm, splashy bio-drama about the boxing legend glosses over the man behind the myth
Planet Omar review

Planet Omar review

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Well-meaning, warm-hearted but underpowered adaptation of Zanib Mian’s children’s books
Good Golly Miss Molly review

Good Golly Miss Molly review

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Politics is drowned out by pop in this revival of Bob Eaton’s overstuffed documentary musical
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