Category: London
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A Doll’s House at the Lyric Hammersmith review *****
A Doll’s House Lyric Hammersmith, 18th September 2019 You can never have too much Nora. After Samuel Adamson’s gender fluid Wife at the Kiln, and this adaptation from Tanika Gupta set in colonial India, the Tourist has the 3 for the price of 1, Glasgow Citizens, radical re-working from Steff…
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The King of Hell’s Palace at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
The King of Hell’s Palace Hampstead Theatre, 17th September 2019 This was an interesting choice as the first production in Roxana Silbert’s inaugural season at the Hampstead Theatre. A play based on a true story about corruption scandal in China. From a US playwright, (who spent part of her childhood…
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The Night of the Iguana at the Noel Coward Theatre review ***
The Night of the Iguana Noel Coward Theatre, 16th September 2019 Last minute purchase. Just about worthwhile. The Night of the Iguana is not normally considered one of Tennessee William’s greatest hits, and I am certainly no TW completist, but the cast, the director, James Macdonald, the designer, Rae Smith,…
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The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre review *****
The Doctor Almeida Theatre, 13th September 2019 He’s only gone and done it again. Robert Icke, the departing Associate Director at the Almeida, has ended on a high. Like that is any great surprise. Once again he has taken a classic text, this time Arthur Schnitzler’s dissection of anti-Semitism in…
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Until the Flood at the Arcola Theatre *****
Until the Flood Arcola Theatre, 10th September 2019 I am in awe of actors, and indeed other performers, who are prepared to step out on a stage alone to entertain, inspire and educate us. A one character monologue is tricky enough. To present multiple characters surely more so. To inhabit…
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A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic review *****
A Very Expensive Poison Old Vic Theatre, 9th September 2019 Lucy Prebble wrote The Effect, ENRON and The Sugar Syndrome all of which were rightly lauded. She is currently one of the writers on Succession the best thing on the telly in this, or any other, year. And Guardian journalist…
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The Secret River at the National Theatre review ****
The Secret River National Theatre Olivier, 29th August 2019 This must have been tough. Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River is an epic production, in terms of the story it tells and the way it tells it, involving numerous creatives and a large cast, over 40 people in…
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Hansard at the National Theatre review ****
Hansard National Theatre Lyttleton, 26th August 2019 Simon Woods is an actor who has appeared in TV shows such as Rome, Cranford and Spooks and films including Pride and Prejudice and Starter for 10, though I am afraid I don’t recognise him. He also went to Eton, then Oxford where…
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Natalia Goncharova exhibition at Tate Modern review *****
Natalia Goncharova Tate Modern, 26th August 2019 Right cards on the table. If I don’t start getting a move on I am never going to catch up in terms of documenting my cultural adventures on this blog, Which would render it even more pointless and too much of a chore.…
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As You Like It at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch review ***
As You Like It Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, 26th August 2019 I don’t think I was alone in praising the first initiative in the collaboration between Public Acts and the National Theatre last year which brought amateur and professional creatives together to produce a piece of large scale community theatre. That…
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Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****
Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…
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