David Benedict Producer Sonia Friedman returns to the post-pandemic West End not with a safe revival but with a succession of brief runs for three socially-distanced world premieres by young writers, and it is an impressive act of faith in the future.
But while Friedman looks to the future of theater, young U.S. playwright Amy Berryman looks further still. She’s making her U.K.
debut with “Walden,” the three-actor season opener that has its eye on the future of the planet and beyond.Although the date is left unclear, we’re promptly made aware of the fact that we’re in a none-too-distant future, courtesy of a news bulletin that Stella (a not so much febrile as high-wired Gemma Arterton) listens to on her phone.
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