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Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Whip Hand, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh ✭✭✭✭✭

With its twists and revelations, The Whip Hand works as a gripping family drama, but it also cleverly explores our sense of responsibility and what drives it.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Nassim, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Bush Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭✭

But, while politics lurks in the background, Nassim is about the things that are common to all of us beyond language and cultural differences.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Not About Heroes, Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Stephen MacDonald's beautifully structured play Not About Heroes, is given a fine production by Flying Bridge Theatre at this Fringe.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Cow, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭

Sharply written and winningly performed by Barker-Wren, Cow provides plenty of laughs and visually memorable moments, sometimes verging on unashamed silliness

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Woke, Guilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭

Woke passionately alerts us to the ongoing struggle to overcome the historical flaws in American society over race that continue into the present day.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Windows, Finborough Theatre ✭✭

Overall, however, Windows is a worthy but rather torpid outing for a family who have been ignored professionally for 85 years

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Losing Days, New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

This is a brave performance, especially as Sam admits that, in his industry, people – especially men – don’t tend to talk about their problems.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: My Real Life, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

My Real Life weaves a spell that keeps you gripped throughout despite it being 90 minutes of Noel simply sat in an armchair speaking into a tape recorder. It…

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: The Beasts, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Dolan gives a powerfully underplayed performance, avoiding sensationalism but exploring the issues in a way that is unsettling and uncomfortable

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Against, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

This is a magnificent, epic, intellectual and heart-felt play in a superb production, full of insight and truth, written with a masterful sense of theatrical…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Finding Nana, Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Although a personal piece, the play is about the shared experience of grief, and is a warm elegy to loss and love. You will not only feel that you know Jane'…

Paul T Davies

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INTERVIEW: Samantha Womack talks The Addams Family

We are Family! Samantha Womack talks passion, pets and a ‘monster’ new role as Morticia in Andrew Lippa's musical The Addams Family.

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: 13 the musical, Ambassadors Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It's great to see new talent up on stage in the West End struttung their stuff with shows like 13. There's no doubt that if this is the next generation of Br…

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Sara Kestelman in The Lady In The Van at Theatre Royal Bath

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: Robert Lindsay in Prism at Hampstead Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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Milly Thomas wins Stage Edinburgh Award for Dust

Douglas Mayo

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Casting announced for return season of Dr Seuss's The Lorax

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Elixir, Underbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭

Elixir is certainly something different, a hugely enjoyable acrobatic show with a decent enough story line to fill an exhilarating hour.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Sunday In The Park With George, The Other Palace ✭✭✭✭✭

For those who didn't see Sunday In The Park With George, then all I can say is, please - if you can - try and find time to see the productions of this astoni…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Evita, Phoenix Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Emma Hatton makes every post a winner with an exciting performance of one of the greatest modern stage musical roles for women.

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Brutal Cessation, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Despite the intensity of the piece, Brutal Cessation is peppered with a dark wit which, judging my Thomas's other Fringe play, Dust, is a trademark of her wr…

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Pulled, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭

Directed by Ita Morrissey, Pulled is a little uneven but offers plenty of broad laughs, lifted by two engaging performers.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Secret Life Of Humans, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Secret Life Of Humans is a wonderful piece of storytelling that is thought-provoking and often funny, directed with élan by its writer David Byrne with Kate …

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Out Of Love, Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭

Out of Love is an emotional rollercoaster, at times very funny, sometimes devastatingly moving. Intelligently written and flawlessly staged

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Prom Kween, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

It's a show with heart and soul, and a serious celebration of being who you are. We won't be hearing the last of this queen of a musical.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Salad Days, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

When the stage is abuzz with all 14 of the cast, it fairly bristles with an often astonishingly high level of Fifties glamour, making it far and away the mos…

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Dust, Underbelly Cowgate ✭✭✭✭

At times brutally graphic and always gripping, the writing is sharp and honest, confirming this as an impressive piece from someone we are sure to hear more of.

Mark Ludmon

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FIRST LOOK: Jesus Christ Superstar Returns To Regent's Park By Popular Demand

Douglas Mayo

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FIRST LOOK: 13 The Musical, Ambassadors Theatre

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: A Touch Of Mrs Robinson, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

There is some fun audience participation, and although the cougar could have been more strongly unleashed in places, this is a soothing gem of an hour, very …

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: King Cowboy Rufus Rules The Universe, London Theatre Workshop ✭✭✭

So, take it for what it is, please, because it is never going to be anything else. It's a tough ride, but an interesting one, and impeccably presented.

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Meet Me At Dawn, Traverse Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It is also refreshing to see a play in which the sexuality of a same sex couple is irrelevant, love and loss are the central themes

Paul T Davies

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Andy Coxon cast as Berger in 50th Anniversary Production of Hair

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Wild Bore, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭

Zoe Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott now own this material and have created a cathartic and anarchic show that has many laugh out loud mome…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Gypsy Queen, Assembly Front Room, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Hope Theatre company have created a highly involving piece and director Adam Zane kept the action fluid and engaging.

Paul T Davies

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Full casting announced for The Caretaker in Bristol and Northampton

The full cast has been announced for the new production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker coming to Bristol, Southampton and Northampton.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: The Soft Subject, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Woodley is a warm and engaging actor, and shares his experience of love openly, with symbolic props and subtext conveyed to us, the class. Never patronizing,…

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Peter Pan, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭

You should never forget your visit to Neverland, and I promise you an unforgettable trip with this talented company.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: David Walliam's The First Hippo On The Moon, Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

There are enough fart and poo jokes to keep the children, and the child within, highly entertained, and some excellent audience participation!

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: Bombastic Declaration of Love, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

The beauty of Bombastic Declaration of Love is the effect it has on the audience and what Julie manages to elicit from them.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Black Mountain, Roundabout @ Summerhall ✭✭✭✭

Black Mountain is another strong production from Paines Plough. The dialogue whips along in this well acted production.

Paul T Davies

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REVIEW: The Shape Of Pain, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

The Shape of the Pain's strength is its use of flickering lights, disorienting video effects, buzzing and throbbing sounds and a general assault on the sense…

Mark Ludmon

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Irish comedy heading for Watford Colosseum

Tommy Marren’s comedy Nobody’s Talking To Me is to play the Watford Colosseum in Hertfordshire in the one British engagement outside of a tour of Ireland.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Glorious, Frinton Summer Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

With such a strong line-up, it should come as no surprise that it is a perfect delight, full of feelgood humour and hilarious performances.

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Eve, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭

What a story. Eve will be one of the most honest accounts of change and transgression that you will see on the Fringe.

Mark Ludmon

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New stage version of The Exorcist to open at Phoenix Theatre London

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Heather, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭

Grippingly directed by Valentina Ceschi, it effectively shifts tone and perspective and, by the end, leaves us questioning how much we really want to know ab…

Mark Ludmon

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REVIEW: Letters to Morrissey, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

It's not important to like Morrissey, anyone who has been disaffected or angst ridden will associate with the story teller.

Paul T Davies

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