" 'The Interview' makes some interesting points on the morality of journalism but struggles to answer the very questions it asks."
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“Obviously drama and journalism have different moral codes. But even as an absolutist republican I felt uncomfortable with Maitland exploiting the dead Diana to criticise her own son, and to spout glib, pseudo-profound points.”
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“This crisp, questioning and perhaps too light drama argues that it was much more than that by interrogating journalistic practice and drawing (not entirely convincing) associations with today’s fake news.”
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“With the audience seated on all four sides of the bare stage, Michael Fentiman’s production evokes the goldfish bowl ambience that turned so many members of the magic circle into spies and informers.”
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“Director Michael Fentiman’s taut staging lends the piece the unsettled energy of a noir thriller...Ultimately, Maitland leaves it to the audience to judge whether Bashir was acting in the public interest, or simply in service to his own ambition.”
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"It takes its subject seriously and tries to move beyond the black-and-white media takes. But in trying to make a good point it often forgets to be a good play. "
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" 'The Interview’s' main contribution to our knowledge is a scene in which an BBC editor cuts some of Diana’s sharper opinions about royals such as the Queen Mother – and these cutting-room-floor details have a powerful charge."
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“This, perhaps, is the problem at the heart of this intelligent but limited drama: it doesn’t really add much to the debate about the unstable nature of truth in a climate in which everyone is clamouring to have their say...Instead we’re left in Michael Fentiman’s artfully choreographed production with the sorry human fall-out of our own deathless fascination with Diana.”
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