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REVIEW: Duncton Wood, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Duncton Wood, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Michael Strassen's richly detailed, splendidly cast, and lovingly staged premiere production of Duncton Wood (music and lyrics from Mark Carroll, book by Jam…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Show Off, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Show Off, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

Nikki Aitken, with pianist Simona Budd, performed Show Off. Aitken is a widely recognized artist in Australia where she has won awards for her cabaret progra…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Skin In Flames, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Skin In Flames, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It would be wrong to reveal more of the detail but the writer deserves great credit for the way in which he remorselessly brings the stories together in the …

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Beyond Bollywood, London Palladium ✭✭

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REVIEW: Beyond Bollywood, London Palladium ✭✭

All these positives on the creative side only sharpen the regret that this reviewer and clearly many of the audience felt that we were not seeing more of the…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Flames, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Flames, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭

However, there is an uncertainty of tone about the piece as a whole that does not entirely convince. The evening starts as a straight-forward thriller but th…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Kingmaker, Above The Arts, ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Kingmaker, Above The Arts, ✭✭✭✭

Most immediately Kingmaker recognizes the extent to which the rewards in politics go to those whose priorities remain resolutely fixed on the rules of the ga…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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