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Maxine Peake is a skilled and sensitive actress who does everything possible to breathe life into her character, Dana, and the weird journey she takes. Peake is a joy to watch and listen to; she has several marvellous speeches, full of passion and energy, her classical skills …
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The world Of Marching On Together is a raw, realistic one. As playwright, Hughes imbues each of his characters with harsh truth, his dialogue has incredible …
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At the centre of the maelstrom of human experience that whips up and around and in Jan Versweyveld's spare set is the towering, mesmerising and faultless tu…
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Jekyll & Hyde is confronting in many ways and squarely raises the question of where the line is drawn between unpleasant, complicit voyeurism and involvi…
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From the moment Alastair Brookshaw's astonishing S.L. Jacobowsky, alone on stage, starts the narrative running, the audience is hooked, completely aware that…
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Part improvisation, part slick comedy routine, part pantomime, part musical, part physical theatre, part arrant nonsense, this Beowulf is an imaginative comi…
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Oh What A Lovely War still has great relevance and, in at least one respect, has more power now than it ever has. It is a combination of sketches, jokes, mus…
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Don’t come to Gods and Monsters expecting a re-telling of the making of Frankenstein. It’s far more than that. This is a well-told tale full of humour, emoti…
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Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath is a perplexing play, but not necessarily in a bad way. With a shifting tone from comedy to horror, it takes you in d…
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McWhir understands the limitations of the Landor intimately and is especially skilled at making the most of those limitations. This production of She Loves M…
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Gov's idea - a confrontational musical fantasy dealing with the realities of Cancer, Cancer treatment and human responses to both - is inspired. In the secon…
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With an energetic and talented ensemble, the show gives the audience everything they came for, from the much-loved songs to comedy bordering on campness. You…
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The Hard Problem is populated with unpleasant and unlikeable people spouting difficult scientific jargon in a sea of sentimental and predictable banality. Th…
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