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REVIEW: The Man Who Had All The Luck, Kings Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
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REVIEW: The Man Who Had All The Luck, Kings Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Arthur Miller was born a hundred years ago. A centenary is about discovering work afresh if it is about anything and the King’s Head deserve great credit for choosing to commemorate this great writer, not through one of plays with which we are very familiar, but with a less-we…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Future Conditional, Old Vic ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Future Conditional, Old Vic ✭✭✭✭

There is a joy to this piece that is impossible to truly describe in words—it has the boisterous nature of Spring Awakening (the musical) but without sung th…

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Editorial Staff

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REVIEW: Song From Far Away, Young Vic ✭✭

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REVIEW: Song From Far Away, Young Vic ✭✭

Stephens shares writing credits for Song From Far Away with Mark Eitzel who provides the lyrics and music for a haunting, quite beautiful song, pieces of whi…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Dusty The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre ✭

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REVIEW: Dusty The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre ✭

Whilst there are a few moments of quality, Dusty’s hackneyed script and awkward staging means not even the son of a preacher man could save it. The show is n…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Hatched 'N' Dispatched, Park 90 ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Hatched 'N' Dispatched, Park 90 ✭✭✭✭

This play can be seen as a saucy romp or as something rather more unexpectedly melancholy than that; but either way it is a thoroughly absorbing evening, an…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Absent, Shoreditch Town Hall ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Absent, Shoreditch Town Hall ✭✭✭

Absent is a bit like a night in a Travelodge – it does the job and gives you an interesting night but you leave feeling like you could have had something a b…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: McQueen, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: McQueen, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭✭

The play triumphantly uncovers and re-asserts McQueen’s credo that design is at its best an act of love of the person – a summing up of who that man or woman…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Our House, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Our House, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

While this is a deserved revival of an intriguing show, the core material remains in some respects unsatisfactory, and the scale of the show is not a great f…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Henry V, Temple Church ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Henry V, Temple Church ✭✭✭✭

It is very rare that a company integrates a new concept so thoroughly into a Shakespeare play – too often it is merely gestural – but here the level of atten…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Swallow, Traverse Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Swallow, Traverse Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This powerful production, sharply directed by Orla O'Loughlin, is a highlight of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and another demonstration of Smith’s s…

Mark Ludmon

Mark Ludmon

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