After Life review: A lightweight return from the National Theatre - 3/5 Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s cult 1998 Japanese film feels like a downbeat show to come back with for the National
PATRICK MARMION: Shakespeare wrote 37. George Bernard Shaw wrote more than 60. But Alan Ayckbourn has topped them both with his 85th play, The Girl Next Door.