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REVIEW: Casa Valentina, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
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REVIEW: Casa Valentina, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

As directed by Luke Sheppard, Casa Valentino is a play about a marriage. Everything turns on the central relationship between George (Edward Wolstenholme) and Rita (Tamsin Carroll). They have an unconventional marriage. She married him knowing that he liked to dress in women’s…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: F*ck The Polar Bears, Bush Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: F*ck The Polar Bears, Bush Theatre ✭✭

It feels like a farce as it plays out. Yet, it is described as "a raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams". Bizarre and incompre…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Ushers, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Ushers, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This inventiveness, as well as some first-class performances, helped make Ushers a very enjoyable night. However, its frequent theatrical references and in-j…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Photograph 51, Noel Coward Theatre ✭✭

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REVIEW: Photograph 51, Noel Coward Theatre ✭✭

It is important to be clear about Kidman's failures because the character she plays, Rosalind Franklin, at least in the version of history which Ziegler endo…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Future Conditional, Old Vic ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Future Conditional, Old Vic ✭✭✭✭

There is a joy to this piece that is impossible to truly describe in words—it has the boisterous nature of Spring Awakening (the musical) but without sung th…

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Editorial Staff

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REVIEW: Song From Far Away, Young Vic ✭✭

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REVIEW: Song From Far Away, Young Vic ✭✭

Stephens shares writing credits for Song From Far Away with Mark Eitzel who provides the lyrics and music for a haunting, quite beautiful song, pieces of whi…

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Stephen Collins

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REVIEW: Dusty The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre ✭

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REVIEW: Dusty The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre ✭

Whilst there are a few moments of quality, Dusty’s hackneyed script and awkward staging means not even the son of a preacher man could save it. The show is n…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: Hatched 'N' Dispatched, Park 90 ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Hatched 'N' Dispatched, Park 90 ✭✭✭✭

This play can be seen as a saucy romp or as something rather more unexpectedly melancholy than that; but either way it is a thoroughly absorbing evening, an…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Absent, Shoreditch Town Hall ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Absent, Shoreditch Town Hall ✭✭✭

Absent is a bit like a night in a Travelodge – it does the job and gives you an interesting night but you leave feeling like you could have had something a b…

Danny Coleman-Cooke

Danny Coleman-Cooke

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REVIEW: McQueen, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: McQueen, Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭✭

The play triumphantly uncovers and re-asserts McQueen’s credo that design is at its best an act of love of the person – a summing up of who that man or woman…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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REVIEW: Our House, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Our House, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

While this is a deserved revival of an intriguing show, the core material remains in some respects unsatisfactory, and the scale of the show is not a great f…

Tim Hochstrasser

Tim Hochstrasser

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