All Patrick Brown Reviews

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Puppy Love. Oliver, with a twist.

April 14th, 2010

For those keeping count, Puppy Love is the fourth recent production to feature a May-December romance. Why are our playwrights preoccupied with this particular taboo?

Diana

Diana.

August 5th, 2009

“Diana” throws us, without reserve or apology, into the aspirations of ordinary Jamaicans—the kind of working-class citizens who don’t have the time, the diplomas or the resources to read theatre reviews in the newspaper.

Love Games

Love Games.

September 25th, 2008

When Shakespeare turned the world into his stage, he laid out seven ages, the third being “the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow”. Patrick Brown, the playwright behind comedy-of-errors Love Games, has his own, more malevolent, view – his lovers do not sigh; they slip in and out [...]