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REVIEW: Adventures in Wonderland, The Vaults ✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
Adventures In Wonderland at The Vaults

Adventures In Wonderland The Vaults 20th May 2017 3 Stars Book Tickets What has happened to this show?  Only a month ago, it was firing on all cylinders, generating a wonderful buzz in the atmospherically redesigned venue, attracting droves of enthusiastic patrons, many dressed up to look the part, and all ready to throw themselves into the mysterious and fascinating world generated by an army of designers and technicians in a sprawling complex of spaces beneath Waterloo Railway Station.  The cast were animated, intensely driven to tell their extraordinary tale of exploration both physical and psychical.  The audience entered into this ready to open their hearts and minds to a revelatory rediscovery of Lewis Carroll’s stories, ‘Alice In Wonderland’ and ‘Alice Through The Looking-Glass’. Having seen the show twice in rapid succession over the past few days, I’m alarmed to have found that the production, while visually just as appealing … Read more

REVIEW: Love In Idleness. Apollo Theatre ✭✭✭

Reviews, West End
Love In idleness at the Apollo Theatre

Love In Idleness Apollo Theatre 18th May 2017 3 Stars Book Tickets Recently, there has been a spate of interest in Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece, ‘The Deep Blue Sea’, with high-profile revivals, a new film, and even a brilliant new play, Mike Poulton’s, ‘Kenny’, based on both the real events that suggested it and also on the meticulously crafted drama that arose from their ashes.  So it was probably only a matter of time before someone got around to wheeling out his collection of sketches for the later, much more fully realised and successful play, the work that is known by a peculiar reference to Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ that now finds itself upgrading from the Menier Chocolate Factory in this show relocation to Shaftesbury Avenue. Promoted – in Bob King’s carefully arranged graphic design – as a three-hander between a young man, Michael Brown, a woman in the prime … Read more