" 'Patriots' is a play in two registers. There are the witty lines, the erudite speeches and the moral conundrums that we’ve come to expect from Morgan’s work. ... The other register, though, is one that’s weighed down by research and exposition."
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A story of ambition and the dangers that come with it, this may not be the easiest of watches given the atrocities Putin has been responsible for in recent months. However, he is only one part of the story that plays out here as Patriots charts the rise and fall of Boris Berezovsky – the Russian Oligarch who after falling out of favour with Putin placed himself in a self-imposed exile in London.
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"It’s an interesting, informative play, with three great performances in Hollander’s brilliant, quicksilver Berezovsky, Keen’s hypnotically plausible, hangdog Putin, and Luke Thallon’s Abramovitch, essentially a nice enough guy who realises he needs the patronage of the others to succeed and sucks it up humbly, becoming stupendously rich in the process."
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"The West End, and indeed Broadway, should surely ready themselves for a benign Russian invasion as Peter Morgan's drama hits the Almeida."
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"Goold’s direction is economical and unremittingly pacy, but assigns random regional accents to characters willy-nilly. The shoehorning of facts into dialogue, and the deployment of Berezovsky’s mathematical interest in infinity and the science of decision-making are a bit obvious. But overall this is a cracking, exciting piece of theatre that’s become, sadly, very timely."
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"The director, Rupert Goold, manages to impose some sort of shape in the first half... By the second half, however, Hollander can’t lift a script that limps from one crisis to another as the shadows close in. "
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"Morgan’s play certainly draws our minds to how Russian’s 1% ended up here, playing out their power battles in UK courtrooms as was in the case with Berezovksy and Abramovich, and as fascinating as this post-perestroika era may be, it begs for a far fuller look at the London connection."
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"Morgan has inarguably produced a work that speaks to the moment – not just in terms of the war in Ukraine, but our own political squabbles."
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