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REVIEW: Thebes Land, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It cleverly blurs the line between reality and what we are seeing on stage in a way that is unsettling and leaves you questioning the theatrical experience itself.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Giles Terera and Friends, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭✭
By the time everyone trooped back onto the stage for the group curtain call, we all knew we’d been through something special. And for all of you who missed …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Licensed To Ill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it's a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Jest End returns to Waterloo East with a new, updated show which takes all the musicals you know and love, and tears them to pieces.
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Her Aching Heart, Hope Theatre ✭✭
As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subje…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Peter Pan, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It's a wonderful production that will delight audiences of all ages and had all of us clapping to show that we really do believe in fairies.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Pride And Prejudice, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is an accomplished show, capturing the spirit and social comedy of Austen with added humour from the multiple casting. It has come to the Jermyn Street …
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Sinbad - The Rock 'N' Roll Panto, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Wolsey hold the record for the longest running pantomime in the UK, so you’ve plenty of time to go up the gang plank to the Saucy Sausage; it’s a ride yo…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Disaster, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
There is no doubt in my mind that Disaster! has everything needed to be a success in the West End. Judging from the audience reaction I would have thought it…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Catch Me, Above The Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: The Mirror Never Lies, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭✭
As with that show, it is only possible to ‘warm’ to the characters (and we have to take their side one way or another) if they can charm us. At present, the…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Princess, LOST Theatre ✭✭✭
It’s huge fun, and races past in barely over an hour, hitting many more pleasure-spots than lulls.
Julian Eaves
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