#Latest news with #HowtoFightLonelinessTimes23-04-2025EntertainmentTimesHow to Fight Loneliness review — a moral thriller about mercy killingFor more than three decades the American writer-director Neil LaBute has maintained a reputation as an arch-provocateur. Often branded as a misogynist and misanthrope for plays and films that have focused on liars, lovers and manipulators, his subject matter has ranged from toxic masculinity to terrorism. In 2023 the Park Theatre in London scored a hit with a slickly assured revival of LaBute's The Shape of Things. His work is now back at the north London venue with the UK premiere of How to Fight Loneliness, a three-hander on the hot-button topic of assisted dying. On the surface LaBute's premise is fairly straightforward. We are in the suburban home of an anxiously conflicted couple facing an awful dilemma. Jodie (Justina Kehinde) has terminal
Times23-04-2025EntertainmentTimesHow to Fight Loneliness review — a moral thriller about mercy killingFor more than three decades the American writer-director Neil LaBute has maintained a reputation as an arch-provocateur. Often branded as a misogynist and misanthrope for plays and films that have focused on liars, lovers and manipulators, his subject matter has ranged from toxic masculinity to terrorism. In 2023 the Park Theatre in London scored a hit with a slickly assured revival of LaBute's The Shape of Things. His work is now back at the north London venue with the UK premiere of How to Fight Loneliness, a three-hander on the hot-button topic of assisted dying. On the surface LaBute's premise is fairly straightforward. We are in the suburban home of an anxiously conflicted couple facing an awful dilemma. Jodie (Justina Kehinde) has terminal
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