{"id":23439,"date":"2025-09-18T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/23439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:04:07","slug":"romans-a-novel-at-almeida-theatre-hugely-ambitious-portrait-of-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/23439\/","title":{"rendered":"Romans, a novel at Almeida Theatre: &#8216;hugely ambitious portrait of masculinity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally known for singular stage plays, Birch has moved into film (Lady Macbeth, the End We Start From, the forthcoming Die, My Love) and TV (Succession, Normal People, Dead Ringers). Romans implies a desperation to escape the conventional, linear narratives of the screen, although there\u2019s an obvious link back to the generational, testosterone-driven toxicity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/film\/jesse-armstrong-elon-musk-people-sky-golden-globes-b1230546.html\" title=\"Jesse Armstrong says new Mountainhead film is \u2018not an Elon Musk hit job\u2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Succession<\/a>. Directed by Birch\u2019s partner Sam Pritchard, the play is hugely ambitious and willfully uneven, profligate with ideas, at times exasperating. But having slept on it, I find it\u2019s stayed with me on a deep level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally known for singular stage plays, Birch has moved into film (Lady Macbeth, the End We Start From,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4278,21364,146,85,46,21365,5782,3897],"class_list":["post-23439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alice-birch","tag-almeida-theatre","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-masculinity","tag-novel","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}