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REVIEW: Oresteia, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭
This is Oresteia, not The Oresteia, the trilogy of plays (Agamennon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) which won Aeschylus a prize in 458BC and which is c…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Reality, Ovalhouse ✭✭✭
Reality follows a group of fame-hungry youngsters who get a final recall for The Hostage, a new reality TV show which they hope will get them closer to fame …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: Not A Game For Boys, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Not A Game for Boys was a fantastic night out, with some stellar performances and a brilliant script – certainly worth making a racket about!
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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REVIEW: King John, Globe Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
James Dacre takes full advantage of the play's many moods and shifts of emphasis and style, with the result that the evening is rambunctious and thoroughly e…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Violence and Son, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs ✭✭✭✭
The Royal Court has not had the best of runs recently, so it is heartening to report that in this new play by Gary Owen they have a really fine piece of writ…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Now This Is Not The End, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭
This then is a play about memory and a sense of homeland, and the inter-generational consequences of the Holocaust and Jewish Diaspora. Clearly this is well-…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Turn Back The Clock, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It leaves us with a slight regret that, as with so many English comedians of her generation, Joyce Grenfell did not emerge more often from the comfort zone i…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Love Me Tender, Manchester Opera Hour ✭✭✭✭✭
It’s almost impossible not be on your feet by the end of the show cheering on this cast of talented performers. Love Me Tender must be West End bound. I’d ta…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Red Lion, Dorfman Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Marber is not writing just about football. The play is fundamentally about notions of masculinity as well as about modern society. The trio represents a kind…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: City Stories, St James Studio ✭✭✭✭✭
This therefore is work at a sophisticated creative level, where everything depends in a very pure, basic sense on the players themselves. There is no scenery…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Stony Broke In No Man's Land, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
With a plethora of films and plays about the tragedy and waste of the Great War I wondered initially whether there would be scope for the themes addressed he…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: A Damsel In Distress, Chichester Festival Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The cast, like a fine soufflé, is full of first rate choices and rises to the occasion in exactly the right way. The singing here is glorious. The Gershwins …
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Stephen Collins
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