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REVIEW: Love Story, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Love Story, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

Victoria Sierra as Jenny Cavilleri and David Albury as Oliver Barratt IV, as the young student couple share the warmth and passion of youth, determined to ma…

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo

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REVIEW: Evita, Dominion Theatre ✭

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REVIEW: Evita, Dominion Theatre ✭

For my part, it is the worst production of a musical I have ever seen on a West End stage. It makes one pine for Too Close Too The Sun.

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Ballyturk, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Ballyturk, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is a wild, original and unexpected evening of theatrical extremism. You do not need to be able to work out what Walsh’s point is to have a wonderful tim…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: As You Like It, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: As You Like It, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

So, it’s a review of two halves for 'As You Like It' - a play that pendulums from bland to bold and bleak to bright - but is absolutely worth seeing, for, if…

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Emily Hardy

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REVIEW: Breeders, St James Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Breeders, St James Theatre ✭✭

It is blessed with four genuinely good performers who elevate the entire proceedings way above the level the writing achieves.

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: The Dreaming, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: The Dreaming, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

It is a mystery why the National did not exploit it rather than pour millions into the waste of time that was The Light Princess. If this got the care and la…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Little Revolution, Almeida Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Little Revolution, Almeida Theatre ✭✭

The trouble is that it has no really coherent purpose, no through line and very little heart. Snatches of conversations out of context build a general pictur…

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Stephen Collins

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