James Graham’s riveting historic play, about the 1969 rivalry between British newspapers The Sun and The Mirror, explores the beginning of tabloid news as we know it today.
"An incredibly brilliant stunner."
Time Out
"Riveting… This is a play that pins down a pivotal moment in newspaper history… And what makes this such a good and gripping piece of theatre is that it doesn’t preach us sermons about press ethics but leaves us to draw our own conclusions from the known facts. It strikes me as a first-rate play about newspapers in the honourable tradition of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front Page."
Michael Billington, The Guardian
"Invigorating… Mr. Graham’s account of the resurrection of that paper — into a tabloid behemoth that hypnotizes its readership while forever altering its competition’s DNA — foretells the age of populist media in which we now live and squirm."
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Consistently engrossing, entertaining and disturbing."
Matt Windman, amNY
"An engrossing, richly detailed play."
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
"Exciting… A scrappy, seductive tabloid tale."
Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
Ink premiered at the Almeida Theatre on June 17, 2017. Directed by Rupert Goold and starring Bertie Carvel and Richard Coyle, the production soon transferred to the West End, where it opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre on September 19, 2017. Ink premiered on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on April 24, 2019. Again directed by Goold, the Broadway production featured Jonny Lee Miller as Larry Lamb, with Bertie Carvel reprising his Olivier-winning performance as Rupert Murdoch.
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James Graham’s ruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of England's most influential newspaper – when a young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asked the impossible and launched its first editor’s quest, against all odds, to give the people what they want. |
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