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Sadly this fine adaptation has a very brief run – I do hope another theatre can be persuaded to allow us to experience this play with this cast once more - and soon…..It deserves to be seen for its own qualities, for the fresh insights it brings to a work we think we know all …
Tim Hochstrasser
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This adaptation of 1984 is a modern masterpiece. Get your tickets now, before they take you to Room 101.
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Findlay's production of The Merchant Of Venice, like all great productions of Shakespeare, is brimming with ideas, spoken with assurance and intelligence, an…
Stephen Collins
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I and the Village may be the best piece of new writing you’ll see at a pub theatre this year.
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If the Chef was a type of food it would be a selection of pre-dinner canapés – small but perfectly formed. However, ultimately you are left wanting a little …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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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…
Stephen Collins
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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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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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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…
Stephen Collins
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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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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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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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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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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…
Stephen Collins
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