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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Miracle on 34th Street review at Bridge House Theatre, London – ‘a super-sweet seasonal treat’ by Dave Hollander

Based on the 1947 radio broadcast of the much-loved American classic, the Bridge House Theatre’s Miracle on 34th Street is a super-sweet

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Til We Meet in England review at Safehouse, London – ‘an intriguing, immersive adaptation’ by Dave Hollander

Beginning like an interactive art installation, Lost Text/Found Space’s Til We Meet in England is both a meditation on the plight of

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Friday, November 3, 2017

Macbeth review at Bussey Building, London – ‘frequently thrilling’ by Dave Hollander

The post-apocalyptic future evoked in Devil You Know’s Macbeth feels uncomfortably close to the present. Mike Lees’ bare set, on which the

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Demons review at St Leonard’s Church, London – ‘noble ambitions’ by Dave Hollander

Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, SplitMoon’s staging of Dostoyevsky’s Demons is no small undertaking. While certain narrative threads resonate both

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Monday, October 9, 2017

A Day by the Sea review at Southwark Playhouse, London – ‘gently humorous’ by Dave Hollander

Written less than a decade after the Second World War, NC Hunter’s A Day by the Sea explores the tribulations of Julian

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Loot review at the Park Theatre, London – ‘breathlessly funny’ by Dave Hollander

Censored by the Lord Chamberlain, Joe Orton’s uproarious farce of death and ill-gotten gains scandalised audiences in 1964. Today’s theatregoers may be

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Monday, August 7, 2017

Mrs Orwell review at Old Red Lion Theatre, London – ‘intriguing but enigmatic’ by Dave Hollander

Recounting a relatively unknown episode shortly before the death of a literary great, Mrs Orwell focuses on assistant magazine editor Sonia Brownell.

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Coming Clean review at King’s Head Theatre, London – ‘astute and timely’ by Dave Hollander

Originally produced 35 years ago, Kevin Elyot’s Coming Clean receives its first major London revival as his final play, Twilight Song, premieres

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Twilight Song review at the Park Theatre, London – ‘amusing but clunky’ by Dave Hollander

Best known for his wittily elegiac My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot completed Twilight Song before he died in 2014, which now

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Monday, July 10, 2017

Fair Field review at Shoreditch Town Hall, London – ‘an ambitious reworking’ by Dave Hollander

Re-imagining the allegorical world of a 14th-century epic poem for a modern audience is no mean feat, but Penned in the Margins’

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Friday, June 23, 2017

Tom Littler vows to turn Jermyn Street into full-time producing theatre by Dave Hollander

London’s Jermyn Street Theatre is to be ‘relaunched’ as a full-time producing house under new artistic director Tom Littler as he announces

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Babette’s Feast review at the Print Room, London – ‘evocative, if overwrought’ by Dave Hollander

Best known from the Danish film version, Karen Blixen’s short story Babette’s Feast traces the lives of two sisters living a remote

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Friday, May 5, 2017

Brimstone and Treacle review at the Hope Theatre, London – ‘chilling and darkly amusing’ by Dave Hollander

Infamously withdrawn from transmission by the BBC in 1976, Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle remains a shocking and divisive piece. Silver-tongued Martin

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Friday, March 17, 2017

After Party review at Pleasance, London – ‘strong ensemble work’ by Dave Hollander

As the haze subsides from a hedonistic bash with a suitably thumping soundtrack, a group of 20-something friends reconvene to pick up

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

You’re Human Like the Rest of Them review at Finborough Theatre, London – ‘eye-opening’ by Dave Hollander

More than 40 years after his untimely death, BS Johnson has acquired cult status as a singular voice in the British avant-garde.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Music Theatre International launches Junior Theatre Celebration by Dave Hollander

Cameron Mackintosh’s Music Theatre International is launching a musical theatre event for children and young people, featuring workshops, teaching and performances. The

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Flew the Coop review at New Diorama Theatre, London – ‘a ripping yarn’ by Dave Hollander

Inspired by the true story of a clandestine love affair between a British prisoner of war and an internment camp translator, Lost

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Here Lies Shakespeare review at Jacksons Lane, London – ‘technically dazzling’ by Dave Hollander

  The skeleton puppet scrabbling in the dirt to unearth potatoes and bones during the prologue to Here Lies Shakespeare is a

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Monday, December 12, 2016

The Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s A Christmas Carol review at the Vaults, London – ‘effortlessly witty’ by Dave Hollander

Impeccably dressed in black tie, Ernest Andrew (Samuel Collings) steps up to make an announcement: Stanley De Pfeffel, star and creator of

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Monday, November 28, 2016

The Tempest review at the Print Room, London – ‘sombre Shakespeare’ by Dave Hollander

Scrambling up through trapdoors, across the charcoal woodchip-strewn stage and teeming through the audience, the chorus of the Print Room’s first Shakespeare

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Strindberg’s Women review at Jermyn Street Theatre, London – ‘a striking double bill’ by Dave Hollander

Highlighting the Swedish playwright’s nuanced approach to female characters, Strindberg’s Women is a double bill of works from contrasting periods of his

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