Category: Theatre
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The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre review ****
The Book of Mormon Prince of Wales Theatre, 20th April 2019 Better late than never. Six years after it opens the Tourist finally gets to see The Book of Mormon. As all Tourists should. Thanks to LS and LGN. Now the previous musical theatre adventures with the two of them…
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Downstate at the National Theatre review *****
Downstate National Theatre Dorfman, 17th April 2019 Sweat, Shipwreck and now Downstate. Some of the best new plays I have seen this year have come from established US playwrights. Whilst Brits can usually be relied upon to come up with more innovative theatre in terms of subject and form, (well…
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A German Life at the Bridge Theatre review ****
A German Life Bridge Theatre, 15th April 2019 It is pretty easy when you spend as much time consuming theatre as the Tourist to go full on luvvie and get well carried away with the “genius” of playwrights, directors, creatives and, especially, actors. So you would probably be wise to…
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The Price at the Wyndham’s Theatre review ****
The Price Wyndham’s Theatre, 10th April 2019 Pretty pleased with myself here. Played chicken with Delfont Mackintosh Theatres and won, eventually getting a cheap, in a known, if not entirely comfortable, berth at the Wyndham’s near the end of the run. Arthur Miller, David Suchet, Brendan Coyle and some very…
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Wolfie at Theatre503 review ****
Wolfie Theatre503, 10th April 2019 I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that Ross Willis is a double espresso with extra shot man. How else to explain the blast of wild energy that is his debut play Wolfie. For sure it is hard to imagine two more vibrant actors…
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The Rubenstein Kiss at the Southwark Playhouse review ****
The Rubinstein Kiss Southwark Playhouse, 9th April 2019 I liked this. A lot. Certainly more than I might have expected given the string of lukewarm reviews. I liked the way the important story was told, the structure, a later generation revisits and is shaped by its shared history, the three…
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Top Girls at the National Theatre review ****
Top Girls National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th April 2019 OK. So I might have oversold this one. It is still Caryl Churchill. With that extraordinary opening act. And that carefully calibrated feminist message, as relevant now as it was when it first appeared in 1982, of how to balance “success” in…
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Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre review *****
Betrayal Harold Pinter Theatre, 1st April 2019 The Tourist never had a great deal of confidence in his ability in his chosen career. Unfortunate in a world where self-belief is everything, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it was misplaced. Still many of those he had cause to…
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