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Theatre

Patrick Marber’s Red Lion at the Dorfman reviewed: ‘the woman next to me yawned a lot’

Plus: a Beckett play that Lloyd Evans found slightly boring, occasionally funny, entirely pointless and rather enjoyable

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

The Red Lion

Dorfman, in rep until 30 September

All That Fall

Pit, Barbican, until 21 June

For nine years Patrick Marber has grappled with writer’s block (which by some miracle doesn’t affect his screenplay work), but the pipes are now ungummed and wallop! his new bolus of creativity splatters across the Dorfman stage. It’s a wordy three-hander set in the swamp of non-league football. Marber brilliantly captures the grubbiness and despairing optimism of ageing sportsmen who inhabit a golden age that never was.

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