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REVIEW: Somewhere in England, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭
This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a ‘lost’ British musical since the 1982 King’s Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis’s ‘Mr Cinders’
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Ulysses' Homecoming, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭
This is an entertaining and skillfully staged production of one of Monteverdi’s most popular operas. Make sure you go and see it at a theatre near you; you’r…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: The Dresser, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Sean Foley’s production of The Dresser is simply extraordinary. Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith are outstanding as ‘Sir’ and Norman, whilst the supporting cas…
Matthew Lunn
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REVIEW: The Book Club, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭
If I had been wearing a hat, I would have taken it off to Amanda Muggleton. Although I didn’t find the character to be particularly likeable, Muggleton’s ext…
Alexa Terry
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REVIEW: One Night In Miami, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭
These are men dancing on the edge of their own history, and the fact that we know their histories, (two of them killed by violence), makes the play highly po…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve (Double Bill), Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭
Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the auth…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Code 2021: Autumn Secret Theatre Project, Bethnal Green ✭
It was a HUGE relief when it was all over. Not least for the accused, perhaps, who - like the rest of the cast - had had the almost impossible task of puttin…
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: The Autumn Garden, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Despite this, there are quality performances on offer and an intriguing plot. The gradual descent of Nick from hero to scoundrel in Constance’s estimations i…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭
The Only Way is Shakespeare? Staged in contemporary Essex in a garrison town, (not very subtly hinting that it takes place in Colchester), this production ma…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: As You Like It, St Martins Church, Colchester ✭✭✭✭
Nicely abridged, with the tiresome Touchstone being eliminated, this is a very entertaining production.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Murder Ballad, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭
for me, ‘Murder Ballad’ is all about the exciting score which doesn’t depend on the screaming tenor, but on the sultry bass and an amalgamation of sexed up j…
Alexa Terry
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REVIEW: Confessional, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Silver takes Williams' American milieu and shifts it deftly - without changing a single word of the text - into the seedy, East-End-by-the-seaside, down-at-h…
Julian Eaves
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