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REVIEW: Marsha - A Girl Who Does Bad Things, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭
So while this is a challenging night in the theatre in the best sense, it remains incomplete and unfinished and invites further revision and reflection on th…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Garine, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The evening was notable for reviving a work of genuine tuneful elegance and comic potential. The commitment and skill of the production overall makes you wan…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: F*cking Men, King's Head ✭✭✭✭
DiPietro’s character studies vere dangerously close to stereotypes at times but ultimately the truth of the characters and their circumstances win out. There…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Backward Fall, Hen And Chickens Theatre ✭✭✭
The Backward Fall is a thoughtful and touching play. It handles the effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s with great sensitivity, and I feel enriched for having…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: The Wind In The Willows, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭
Overall, The Wind in the Willows is an enjoyable evening, with some inventive moments and excellent performances from a talented young cast. Forget Wolf Hall…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: My Children! My Africa, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭
It is difficult to remember a recent production of a drama where the design elements played so profoundly important a role in the understanding of the produc…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭
Whilst I am clearly not the target audience for this production, the kids around me loved it and it is easy to see how it would be a great day out for any fa…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Briefs, London Wonderground ✭✭✭✭✭
This gender, race and sexual politics canvas stretches across the entire platform of the performances, from the sharp opening patter of Fez Fa'anana which ha…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Hetty Feather, Duke Of York Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Hetty Feather is a triumph - although it’s ostensibly for children, it’s a touching and absorbing tale for all ages. It combines multiple artistic elements t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Tommy, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Regardless of how it is characterised, Michael Strassen's production of Tommy is a genuine triumph, practically perfect in every way. From the first note, it…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Adventures Of Pinocchio, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Christian James is a wonderful Pinocchio. He completely captures the sense of the character's otherness and separation (being living wood) as well as a newco…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Grand Hotel, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Proud’s choreography is redolent with an acute understanding of all this and everything he does aims to help involvement in and understanding of the work’s i…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: L'Amore Dei Tre Re, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
Montemezzi may have been something of a one-work composer, but this performance made the best case possible for his masterpiece, and we can only hope that th…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The Heresy Of Love, Shakespeare's Globe ✭✭✭
The Globe is not really a space for claustrophobic intense drama and this production really brings that home. This production would look and feel very differ…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Personals, Landor Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Personals, a comedy musical about finding love through lonely hearts columns, was first performed in 1985, and technology has rendered it an unintentional pe…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre ✭✭✭
The utterly reliable Laura Pitt-Pulford brings strength, warmth and thoughtfulness to Milly - frankly, she outdoes Jane Powell by some distance. Her Milly is…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Three Little Pigs, Palace Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The children sitting around me were having a ball. Engaged, entertained and thoroughly enjoying themselves and that’s brilliant.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Lakmé, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
Yet, Holland Park Opera, here working under director Aylin Bozok, show that these problems are by no means insuperable where the company have confidence in t…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
If you have missed this charming opera this time around then do book now for one of the performances at the Linbury Studio Theatre in early November. You won…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Annie Jnr, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭
It must be every stage school kid’s dream to perform in the West End and the cast of Annie has certainly not passed up the opportunity. It’s an infectiously …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Woman In Black, Fortune Theatre ✭✭✭✭
There’s nothing like a good ghost story to get the heart racing and give you a good scare. The Woman In Black has now been doing just that for twenty-eight y…
Douglas Mayo
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