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REVIEW: As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe ✭✭✭
Blanche McIntyre, whose revival of As You Like It now at the Globe, uses every trick in the book to make Shakespeare's play clear (it is, very), risqué (it i…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Mess, Albany Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Caroline Horton’s Mess is probably the most honest portrayal of an eating disorder that one can find on stage.
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REVIEW: The Beaux' Stratagem, Olivier Theatre ✭✭✭
Of all the cast, it is the gifted Susannah Fielding who comes closest to the right style of acting. She really is a tremendous performer, winning in her wins…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Sense Of An Ending, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭
As this fine play moved towards its nuanced ending I could not help making a comparison with an earlier work that placed nuns in a setting of impossible choi…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Show Off, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭
Nikki Aitken, with pianist Simona Budd, performed Show Off. Aitken is a widely recognized artist in Australia where she has won awards for her cabaret progra…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Skin In Flames, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It would be wrong to reveal more of the detail but the writer deserves great credit for the way in which he remorselessly brings the stories together in the …
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The One Day Of The Year, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Despite its trappings and narrative, this is not a play about Anzac Day, the public holiday in Australia where attention is paid to those who fought for thei…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Beyond Bollywood, London Palladium ✭✭
All these positives on the creative side only sharpen the regret that this reviewer and clearly many of the audience felt that we were not seeing more of the…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, RFH ✭✭✭✭
On the strength of this first, tentative outing, concerts like this could come to rival those staged in the Encores! series in New York or by the Production …
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Stephen Collins
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The success of Headlong's 1984 and its contribution to the future of theatre
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Emily Hardy
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REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭
Gay themed theatre can be hit and miss at the best of times but Chandler, Miller, Dexter and Todd have fashioned an evening that could well break free of its…
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: Flames, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭
However, there is an uncertainty of tone about the piece as a whole that does not entirely convince. The evening starts as a straight-forward thriller but th…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Avenue Q, Greenwich Theatre (UK Tour) ✭✭✭✭✭
Now undertaking its 4th UK Tour, Avenue Q continues to be one of the funniest musicals onstage at the present time. Whether you are an Avenue Q newbie or if …
Douglas Mayo
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REVIEW: The Lonely Soldier Monologues, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is a harrowing but necessary evening in which the transcripts of seven interviews with American women veterans of Afghanistan and the second Iraq War ar…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Jerry's Girls, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is a genuinely terrific night in the musical theatre. Gypsy aside, there is nothing to touch it currently playing in London in terms of value for money …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: The People Vs Democracy, Free World Centre ✭✭✭✭✭
All credit to Jamie Harper and his ebullient, energetic team for a superb evening of thought-provoking fun. Do catch it while it is still running so as to gi…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Kingmaker, Above The Arts, ✭✭✭✭
Most immediately Kingmaker recognizes the extent to which the rewards in politics go to those whose priorities remain resolutely fixed on the rules of the ga…
Tim Hochstrasser
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