The best theatre of 2022
In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout
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In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout
Fran Bushe’s new show, A Gig for Ghosts, confronts loneliness in London, processing grief and new romance in this hilariously tragic story.
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera / Viking Several authors tackle colonialism in very different ways, from Alex Renton confronting his own family’s involvement in slavery in Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Enslaving Past (Canongate), and Sathnam Sanghera in Kehinde Andrews, who rather more controversially takes on capitalism and racism together in The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane). Gender and Identity Politics Likewise gender and identity politics get a good look-in, from Julie Bindel’s manifesto, Feminism for Women (Consta...