" 'Dear England' is undoubtedly thoughtful, detailed, entertaining and absorbing."
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“It’s our national story told with heart, humour and headers, and a beautiful celebration of an unlikely hero. Fiennes is definitely man of the match, but this is a joyful, and victorious, team effort.”
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“This is a thrilling piece of work, popular and political as Graham always intends his plays to be, and – appropriately – a consummate team effort.”
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"this is a team effort, which captures the communal joy and heartache of sport"
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“ ‘Dear England’ is a big-hearted, technically dazzling celebration of football first and a critique of it second. If it was the other way around I wonder if it might feel a little more like a play for the ages. Graham’s best work is so improbably brilliant it carries the audacious rush of putting ten past the other team’s keeper.”
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"A third run for Dear England is an indulgence, but it’s a well earned one."
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“As endearing as it is, the production, directed by Rupert Goold, takes time to really lift off the ground, focusing on story rather than drama in the first half – and it does seem like a game of two halves.”
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"State-of-the-nation playwright James Graham brilliantly captures the blokey awkwardness within our wider national story."
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