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REVIEW: The Wild Duck, Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It is, in every way, a complete theatrical triumph; a marvellous reimagining of Ibsen, set firmly in an Australian idiom, resonating with thrilling power, an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Neville's Island, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭
The prospect of discovering what the blood was about, where Angus' wife was, what Roy's secret was and how the four get along was not sufficiently compelling…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James III - The True Miror, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Sansom imbues this play with a reckless, frenetic energy, a listlessness that reflects the monarch's temperament and a sexy, splendid pulse that tantalises a…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Spare, visceral and gripping, this is an extraordinarily wonderful production of an important and difficult new play, which shines a light onto forgotten eve…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: James II - Day Of the Innocents, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The script and treatment of the material in the writing of this play is so different than the first, that one could be forgiven for thinking that a different…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The Scottsboro Boys relies on the skills of its acting company, giving them chairs and tambourines and a few costumes, as their only tools and the show becom…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Young Vic ✭✭✭✭
Set firmly in the present, this version lacks languid notions about the past, does not spend too much time on the intricacies of character and prefers shock …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Memphis, Shaftesbury Theatre ✭✭✭✭
As Calhoun, Killian Donnelly is a revelation...His mania, energy and sheer talent explodes off the stage driven by some of the finest rock vocals that I have…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Speed-The-Plow, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭
It's a mystery why Lindsay Lohan chose this play as her world stage debut. Perhaps she knew she would be the best thing about it? That would seem the only ra…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Our Town, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is a phenomenally effective and ambitious revival of a masterpiece. It restores one’s faith in the power and magic of theatre and shows, in a very clear…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭
The best aspect of this production is the musicianship on display from the gifted Dean Austin and the four members of his band who, with piano, accordion, gu…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: This Is My Family, Lyceum Sheffield ✭✭✭
This Is My Family is unlikely to win a Tony award for Best New Musical, but it is an engaging and very happy musical theatre experience. It's new, British th…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Electra, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
If the rest of Kevin Spacey's final season at The Old Vic is as remarkable as this Electra, it will be a crowning achievement.
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Stephen Collins
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