London Theater Review: Timely Drama The Writer With Romola Garai
TheWriterhas splitthecritics as properwritingprobably should. Some have dismissed Ella Hicksons new play at the Almeida Theatre, about a frustrated female playwright pushing against patriarchal power, as a petulant gaze into theaters own navel. Others have hailed it as a dazzling deconstruction oftheart form that resists and rebels against those structures.