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REVIEW: The Twits, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭
With both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda still playing with great success elsewhere, this is the latest attempt to bring Dahl’s unique alchemy…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: The Merchant Of Venice, Shakespeare's Globe ✭✭✭✭
Set firmly in its time, circa 1597, with costumes and accoutrements which establish an exotic, far away and, most importantly, bygone era, Munby avoids the g…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Ah, Wilderness!, Young Vic Theatre ✭✭
The combination of sand, water, and romantic moon makes for a touching image towards the end of the play. It is beautifully lit by the talents of Charles Bal…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: No Milk For The Foxes, Camden People's Theatre ✭✭✭
No Milk for the Foxes is a solid piece of theatre preaching to the leftie middle class choir but ultimately that choir needs more a little more than “Aren’t …
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REVIEW: Everyman, National Theatre ✭✭
Rufus Norris throws everything at the production. The result is garish, adolescent and intolerably dull. Too much show and too little style and substance. As…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Wicked, Apollo Victoria Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Wicked is tremendous shape and the current cast gives it full value. If you have never seen it or if you have seen it, now is the time to go again – you too …
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Follies In Concert, Royal Albert Hall ✭✭✭
In the case of Betty Buckley as Carlotta, the casting was inspired. Her powerful and joyful rendition of I'm Still Here stopped the show. But it was Anita Do…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Closer To Heaven, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭
What makes the musical stand-out is it unashamed gaiety, and I use that word in its modern sense. This is, as Nicholas De Jongh said when the piece premiered…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Light Shining In Buckinghamshire, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭
There is an acute fascination in watching the richly intense banquet give way, bit by bit, to the advances of the common folk, to see the lavish table become…
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Stephen Collins
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REVIEW: Abyss, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
But in the end the tension between the daily count of the passage of time and the avoidance of narrative direction is too much to sustain and in the final se…
Tim Hochstrasser
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REVIEW: Scarlet, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Theatre Renegade’s tour-de-force examination of gender violence, Scarlet, is one of the tightest pieces of fringe theatre currently on the stage and not to b…
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REVIEW: Dead Royal, Ovalhouse ✭✭✭✭
Roberts is immaculate in playing both parts: the sour, rotten, old Wallis who, despite her bitterness, wants to save Diana from the dreary drudgery of joinin…
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Stephen Collins
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