★☆☆☆☆Jonathan Maitland is one of the country’s most successful TV journalists and a nationally rated Scrabble player. His second play, An Audience with Jimmy Savile, provoked headlines and helped to put the fledgling Park Theatre in north London on the map. None of that explains why he suddenly seems incapable of writing a script. Deny Deny Deny is about the morality of doping in sports. Eve (Juma Sharkah), a young black athlete (“Sierra Leone by way of Shepherd’s Bush”), is approached by a glamorous new coach, Rona (the usually superior Zoe Waites).

Source: The Times November 10, 2016 17:10 UTC