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James Norton in Belleville

Mark Ludmon gets ready to go talent spotting in search of future stars Tickets for Belleville at the Donmar Warehouse have been like gold dust but, a few years ago, you could have managed to see TV and film star James Norton along with a host of other familiar names with a lot more ease. You might have caught him alongside Daisy May Cooper, the star of hit BBC comedy This Country, in Marius von Mayenburg’s The Stone, or appearing with James McArdle – soon to be in Angels in America on Broadway – in Shaw’s Man and Superman. As part of the same season, you could have enjoyed performances by Joshua McGuire, Alexandra Roach, Susan Wokoma, Phoebe Fox, Nick Hendrix, Seline Hizli, Ivanno Jeremiah, Tom Kay, Jenna Augen, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Cynthia Erivo and several other well-known faces from TV, film and stage, all performing together in final-year student productions … Read more

REVIEW: Deathwatch, Print Room At The Coronet ✭✭✭

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Deathwatch - Print Room At The Coronet

Deathwatch Print Room At The Coronet 14 April 2016 3 Stars About as French as a pasty, and just as heavy. Jean Genet is running amok on our London stages at the moment. After scandalising us in The Maids at the Trafalgar Studios he’s back to finish the job with David Rudkin’s translation of Deathwatch at The Print Room, Coronet, directed by Geraldine Alexander. Three convicts trapped in the same small cell struggle to maintain social order as they compete for the favour of condemned murderer Green Eyes. To a modern audience this play’s claustrophobia facilitates a deconstruction of masculinity, and Genet enjoys provoking his audience by inverting societal codes of morality as the men glamourise and sexualise their brutality. Unfortunately, these noble aspirations are suffocated under laboured and repetitive text that never feels as dangerous or as visceral as it should. Having never been to The Print Room at … Read more