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REVIEW: Blood Brothers 2017, New Victoria Theatre Woking (On Tour) ✭✭✭✭
Every member of the audience stood at the end, and that's because this is a show with no fancy heirs or graces that captures your heart.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Promises Promises, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
this is the ‘must-see’ show of the moment, with a glamorous audience hurrying to get in on the fun. And, yes, ultimately it keeps its promises. All of them.
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett, Faber and Faber ✭✭✭✭
“If I was to stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork, I should still be regarded as a cuddly teddy bear”, says Alan Bennett of his ‘national treasure’ status.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Raising Martha, Park Theatre ✭✭
That sound that you hear in the production is not frogs croaking. It’s the ghost of Joe Orton tutting with boredom that, in fifty years, his anarchic comedy …
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Half A Sixpence 2016 London Cast Recording, First Night Records ✭✭✭✭
Live theatre lovers are probably going to hate me for this one, but I have to say that I actually enjoyed the Half A Sixpence recording more than I enjoyed t…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Strangers In Between, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The glory of this work is in the vivid life that exists in its extraordinary criss-crossing of four versions of very ordinary people. Tune into that and you …
Julian Eaves
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REVIEW: Hairspray Live Original Soundtrack, Masterworks Broadway ✭✭✭✭✭
If you are a fan of Hairspray or if you have never heard the score then this is certainly the one I'd recommend you start with
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Amaluna, Royal Albert Hall ✭✭✭✭✭
Cirque Du Soleil has worked out exactly how to bedazzle and audience and they do it year after year, in production after production around the world.
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Wish List, The Royal Court ✭✭✭✭
Winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize, Katherine Soper’s play explores zero contract hours Britain through brother and sister Tamsin and Dean.
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: Abigail, The Bunker Theatre ✭✭✭
Ultimately, Abigail comes across as a confused thing, hindered by just too many good ideas in too short a time. Good production helps redeem the play to a de…
Sophie Adnitt
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REVIEW: BU21, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭
If the play sounds intense and grim, it’s strength is in its blackest of black humour, making interesting points about how we all think in “media speak”
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: The Kite Runner, Wyndhams Theatre ✭✭✭✭
it builds to a hugely emotional climax, and you may need a tissue! In our fearful times, The Kite Runner offers an open palm of reconciliation and hope. I wo…
Paul T Davies
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REVIEW: The Tempest, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
There’s no new ground broken in this interpretation, but everything done is done well and is full of clever ideas for building the world of the play with lim…
Sophie Adnitt
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