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REVIEW: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction), Bloomsbury ✭✭✭✭✭
The discipline of stripping a work down to its basics and re-inventing it in numerous very different locations night after night recaptures the spirit of rep…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: A Breakfast Of Eels, Print Room At The Coronet ✭✭✭✭
The text is like a huge tapestry - there are many elements sewn into it: moments of silence, of banality, of revelation, of humour, of intense longing, of po…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Trainspotting, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭
With the audience sat and stood around three sides, the action regularly erupts off the stage, from projectile soiled sheets to splashes of murky toilet wate…
Mark Ludmon
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REVIEW: And Then There Were None, UK Tour ✭✭✭✭
It was fascinating to hear the animated discussion in the auditorium, in the intervals or scene breaks, about the identity of the murderer(s) (not to give an…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Return To The Forbidden Planet, UK Tour ✭✭✭
It is a jukebox full of lively hit after hit just some of which are Great Balls of Fire, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Vibrations, Young Girl and She's…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Harvey, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭
McIntosh's achievement with the set is world class, and the magical sense of the way the set changes works beautifully to mirror the magic of a world where t…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: These Trees Were Made Of Blood, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
The framework devised for the production is The Coup Coup Club (a clever play on the Kit Kat Club which instantly sets the groundwork for military dictators …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Calamity Jane, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is a theatrical treat: a good, old fashioned musical done in a new fangled way. It's great to hear such good songs so well sung by a cast that basically…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Sweeney Todd, Harringtons ✭✭✭✭✭
Eschewing grandeur and wisely opting to follow that sensible motto, Less Is More, this transfer of the Tooting Arts Club production of late 2014 is a complet…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The Broken Heart, Sam Wanamaker Theatre ✭✭
To consider The Broken Heart as a soap opera is to fundamentally misconceive it. The author seemed clear enough that it was a tragedy and the text certainly …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Barnum, UK Tour ✭✭
Mikey Jay-Heath is superb as Tom Thumb and his big number, Bigger Isn't Better, is wonderful in every way. Landi Oshinowa displays great vocal chops, twice. …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Hiraeth, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Hiraeth, the story of a small town Welsh girl and her journey to the “Big City” covers well-trodden territory, but with its comedic genius, and toe tapping m…
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REVIEW: Stevie, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭
In the title role, Zoe Wanamaker is in terrific form. She is wholly believable as a woman out of place in the world but entirely at home in the confines of h…
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Stephen Collins
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