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Hetty Feather is a triumph - although it’s ostensibly for children, it’s a touching and absorbing tale for all ages. It combines multiple artistic elements to fantastic effect and manages to be funny, uplifting and sad, sometimes all in the same scene.
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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Regardless of how it is characterised, Michael Strassen's production of Tommy is a genuine triumph, practically perfect in every way. From the first note, it…
Stephen Collins
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Christian James is a wonderful Pinocchio. He completely captures the sense of the character's otherness and separation (being living wood) as well as a newco…
Stephen Collins
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Proud’s choreography is redolent with an acute understanding of all this and everything he does aims to help involvement in and understanding of the work’s i…
Stephen Collins
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Montemezzi may have been something of a one-work composer, but this performance made the best case possible for his masterpiece, and we can only hope that th…
Tim Hochstrasser
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The Globe is not really a space for claustrophobic intense drama and this production really brings that home. This production would look and feel very differ…
Stephen Collins
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Personals, a comedy musical about finding love through lonely hearts columns, was first performed in 1985, and technology has rendered it an unintentional pe…
Matthew Lunn
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The utterly reliable Laura Pitt-Pulford brings strength, warmth and thoughtfulness to Milly - frankly, she outdoes Jane Powell by some distance. Her Milly is…
Stephen Collins
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The children sitting around me were having a ball. Engaged, entertained and thoroughly enjoying themselves and that’s brilliant.
Douglas Mayo
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Yet, Holland Park Opera, here working under director Aylin Bozok, show that these problems are by no means insuperable where the company have confidence in t…
Tim Hochstrasser
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If you have missed this charming opera this time around then do book now for one of the performances at the Linbury Studio Theatre in early November. You won…
Tim Hochstrasser
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It must be every stage school kid’s dream to perform in the West End and the cast of Annie has certainly not passed up the opportunity. It’s an infectiously …
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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There’s nothing like a good ghost story to get the heart racing and give you a good scare. The Woman In Black has now been doing just that for twenty-eight y…
Douglas Mayo
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Some doubted whether a magic show could thrive in the modern day West End but Impossible truly provides a first-class spectacle. It is intelligently staged a…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
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This is a noisy and shouty play and in many ways that is necessarily so – industrial processes, bombs, football matches, drinking in the pub – these provide …
Tim Hochstrasser
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This is Whishaw's show - no question. He is a force of nature, fiercely unearthing every moment of nuance, humour and purpose from the text and giving a tota…
Stephen Collins
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The comic performance of the night, and the source of most consistent pleasure, came from the very talented Tom Edden who made an acting masterclass out of t…
Stephen Collins
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