Shouts and Murmurs - March 5, 2024

Yet another week in the Willy's Chocolate Experience that is the UK theatre industry in 2024.

Hello, and welcome to Shouts And Murmurs, a weekly email for paid supporters of The Crush Bar, written by me, Fergus Morgan.

Every week, I round up the best theatre writing elsewhere - reviews, interviews, opinion, long-reads - plus any other interesting theatre-related stuff I find.

This week, there are: links to some nice, sensible responses by nice, sensible people to the news that the West End run of Jeremy O Harris’ Slave Play will include Black Out shows; review round-ups of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Human Body at the Donmar Warehouse, Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic, and Mark Ravenhill’s Ben and Imo at the RSC; and a few more bits worth reading, including a remarkable, recently rediscovered letter by Arthur Miller.