Review Round Up: Vincent in Brixton, Orange Tree Theatre

Review Round Up: Vincent in Brixton, Orange Tree Theatre

Discover how critics are reacting to this revival of Nicholas Wright’s 2002 play, running at the Orange Tree Theatre until the 18th April. Photograph: Johan Persson The Guardian: **** "Jeroen Frank Kales makes a pale and knobbly Vincent. His maladroit candour is almost too much for the space, always at risk of scattering the crockery.…

Vincent in Brixton – Orange Tree Theatre

A young lover, a religious zealot, or a tragic genius? Vincent Van Gogh is remembered almost exclusively as one of the above. One of the founding idols in the cult of artistic misery, his legacy is not an uncomplicated one. Vincent in Brixton is, on the other hand, simply marvellous. The play itself, by Nicholas Wright is a precise and thought-provoking incision into an underexplored segment of the artist’s life. Neither obnoxiously philosophica…