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REVIEW: 27, The Cockpit ✭✭✭✭✭
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REVIEW: 27, The Cockpit ✭✭✭✭✭

This current production looks like an object lesson in how to fuse the best of experienced industry leaders with dynamic new talent. And the writing-directing-choreographing team here are scoring a massive hit with their debut project: doubtless, they will be using the Cockpit…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Party, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Party, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭✭

Party isn’t a play that involves long complex character studies. It’s a hoot, had me laughing throughout and wanting a return visit. It’s pure fun. It holds …

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Punkplay, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Punkplay, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Gregory S. Moss is an ingenious playwright who has created a sequence of tableaux, each of which can be understood as a 'cover' of a different musical 'track…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Broken Strings, Tabard Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Broken Strings, Tabard Theatre ✭✭✭

Above all, this is a drama that might occur in anyone's life: the sheer everyday nature of the story is in fact its raison d'etre. While it may not bark for …

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Vanities, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Vanities, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭

‘Vanities The Musical’ is another dazzling production in Aria Entertainment’s charming and growing catalogue and, whether it is an evening with your friends,…

Alexa Terry

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: La Boheme, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: La Boheme, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭

While Adam Spreadbury-Maher’s version of Puccini’s La Boheme is original and beautifully sung, it struggles to capture all the magic of the original. A stron…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Bumblescratch, Adelphi Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Bumblescratch, Adelphi Theatre ✭✭

As it stands the score is far too dense and thematically all over the place, the plot far too complex and several characters seemingly irrelevant. Once I got…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Crime and Punishment, The Scoop ✭✭

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REVIEW: Crime and Punishment, The Scoop ✭✭

Not only does he (Phil Willmott) offer free live performances to theatre virgins, to those who wouldn’t normally choose to spend their money on tickets and t…

Alexa Terry

Alexa Terry

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REVIEW: Bounder And Cad, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Bounder And Cad, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

There is no doubt that their highly comedic takes on current affairs, politics and the British psyche not only hit the nail on the head but well and truly ha…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: The Burnt Part Boys, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Burnt Part Boys, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

You must judge for yourself whether you think this may or may not the case with this play. Whatever decision you arrive at, you might also like to consider w…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: Unfaithful, Found111 ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Unfaithful, Found111 ✭✭✭

For such an explosive opening, the surprisingly muted ending of Unfaithful leaves its audience unsatisfied and full of questions. Whilst commendable for Cusa…

Sophie Adnitt

Sophie Adnitt

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REVIEW: Brass, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Brass, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭✭

The show's score is one that you want - you need - to revisit again and again. Till and his collaborators are such major talents that there isn't a single li…

Julian Eaves

Julian Eaves

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REVIEW: The Trial, Brockley Jack ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Trial, Brockley Jack ✭✭✭✭

The Trial is an intense and thought-provoking evening, giving a fresh perspective on one of Kafka’s most famous works. An intriguing play in an excellent the…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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