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REVIEW: Licensed To Ill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
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REVIEW: Licensed To Ill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it's a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet old enough to shave. It needs more development before it will become really attractive.

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Her Aching Heart, Hope Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Her Aching Heart, Hope Theatre ✭✭

As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subje…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Catch Me, Above The Arts Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Catch Me, Above The Arts Theatre ✭✭✭

I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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An Experiment In Musical Theatre

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An Experiment In Musical Theatre

Hannah Elsy met Julian Eaves to discuss why she set up The Lowdown, the only public scratch night exclusively for new musical theatre in London.

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Cats, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Cats, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It has to be said: Marianne Benedict as Grizabella gives the best rendition of the infamous show tune that I have ever heard; with the climactic crescendo, h…

Alexa Terry

Alexa Terry

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