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REVIEW: Brass, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭✭
The show's score is one that you want - you need - to revisit again and again. Till and his collaborators are such major talents that there isn't a single li…
Julian Eaves
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Real Life Story Of Performer's Voice Loss Challenge Comes To Pleasance
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Glasgow Girls, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭
While the musical inevitably simplifies complex issues, it seamlessly integrates some of the debate about Britain’s attitudes towards refugees and asylum see…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: Scorched, Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
Directed by Claire Coaché, Scorched is a powerful play that captures the horror of war and the disorientation of dementia.
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: A Regular Little Houdini, Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
It starts slowly but, through the strength of Llewelyn-Williams' performance and writing, you are soon gripped by his tale as it builds in excitement, mixing…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: The Trial, Brockley Jack ✭✭✭✭
The Trial is an intense and thought-provoking evening, giving a fresh perspective on one of Kafka’s most famous works. An intriguing play in an excellent the…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet (Abridged), St Martin's Colchester ✭✭✭✭✭
In this beautiful, innovative production of the play, the script is abridged and the audience promenade and it’s played by a terrific ensemble who convince w…
Paul T Davies
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Drink, Drugs And Homosexuality Feature In New Old Red Lion Production
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Marco Polo, Shaw Theatre ✭✭✭
But the message this work has to speak to us is not going to be dismissed: in an era when the management of the world by politicians is so signally lacking i…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Scooby Doo Live Musical Mysteries, London Palladium ✭✭✭✭
The show runs for just under 90 minutes with a brief interval and had the attention of children throughout. Lots of audience response was called for and the …
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: DarkTales, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭
Late night, in a dank cellar, this show might find the right atmosphere. As it is, it's far too safe, and seems a strange choice for the fringe.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: 946 The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips, Shakepeare's Globe ✭✭✭
This is a story well worth telling; one of the most hushed up disasters in Anglo-American history. It has been turned into a touching and entertaining play, …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Groundhog Day, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
For a 10 week trial, this production of Groundhog Day is as good or better than many shows I have seen this year. A West-end transfer must surely be on the c…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The League Of Youth, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭✭
The genius of this work is that it opens up to us what is really great about the writer: his vision of humanity, his craft as a composer of lyrical epics of …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Teatro Delusio, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭
A packed venue of all ages, from young children to grandparents, loved it. Be quick in booking as this is one hot ticket, and fall in love with theatre again!
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: 5 Guys Chillin, C Too - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭
On the plus side, the cast are very good, and the damaging side of their partying is played very well. I liked the confrontational nature of the script, and …
Paul T Davies
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