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REVIEW: Twelfth Night, Richmond Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Twelfth Night, Richmond Theatre ✭✭✭

The alternative title to Twelfth Night is What You Will, and, more than anything else, that seems Munby's inspiration here. He has, with real determination, …

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Accolade, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Accolade, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭

McIntyre directs with careful, thorough assuredness, avoiding the easy trap of treating the material like the melodrama it could so easily become, preferring…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Cans, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Cans, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

In five snapshots, we see Jen, as masterfully portrayed by Jennifer Clement, slowly come of age through this discovery and Uncle Len, perfectly embodied by G…

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Editorial Staff

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REVIEW: The Rivals, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Rivals, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Constant eruptions of anger, sexual frustration, discrimination of town against country and English against Irish, and hostilities of son against father, ser…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Girlfriends, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Girlfriends, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is the strongest of the three Goodall offerings the Union has produced this year. Tapner's musical direction, an excellent cast led by Catherine Mort, a…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: 2071, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs ✭

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REVIEW: 2071, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs ✭

Billed and promoted as "a play exploring the future of life on earth and climate change", 2071 may be many things, but a play it is not. Nothing theatrical h…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Wildefire, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Wildefire, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭

Director Maria Aberg certainly confronts the challenges Wildefire offers head on. There is some starkly realistic violence - the murder of Spence and it's af…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Side Show, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Side Show, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

On any rational view of it, this is not a revival but a complete re-imagining of the original work. It is not an attempt to recapture the magic of a first ru…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: John, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: John, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It's confronting from start to finish; challenging and disturbing in many ways. But, ultimately, as we hear John settle into a calm, perhaps contented sleep,…

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Stephen Collins

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