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  The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  The Haystack Hampstead Theatre, 31st January 2020 Al Blyth is not your typical playwright. Having studied Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, (disciplines that spend an inordinate amount of time wishing away the presence of us unpredictable humans), he went on to work as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal…

  April 11, 2020
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  Santi and Naz at the Vault Festival review ****

  Santi and Naz The Thelmas, Vault Festival 2020, 30th January 2020 Now I cannot pretend that everything on offer at the Vault Festival is my cup of tea. I suspect most of the comedy and monologues are aimed at a much younger and less hidebound audience than the Tourist and…

  April 11, 2020
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  Cyrano de Bergerac at the Playhouse Theatre review *****

  Cyrano de Bergerac Playhouse Theatre, 30th January 2020 I appreciate the utter pointlessness of me rabbiting on right now about theatre productions that have come and gone but since I am ill equipped to do anything but stay out of the way as instructed, then forgive me my indulgence. Actually…

  April 3, 2020
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  Leopoldstadt at Wyndhams Theatre review ****

  Leopoldstadt Wyndham’s Theatre, 29th January 2020 A new play from the venerable 82 year old Sir Tom Stoppard. Not our greatest living playwright. That is Caryl Churchill, but he does know his way around a text. So booked early, for early in the run and before knowing too much about…

  March 28, 2020
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  You Stupid Darkness! at the Southwark Playhouse review *****

  You Stupid Darkness! Southwark Playhouse, 28th January 2020 With a whimper not a bang. That’s how the world ends in Sam Steiner’s new play. Though, given where we are now, (and as many reviews of this play seem to demand), you might be forgiven for thinking our selfish species will…

  March 13, 2020
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  The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  The Sugar Syndrome Orange Tree Theatre, 27th January 2020 With last year’s A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic, The Effect from 2012, (about to be revived at the fancy newish Boulevard), and ENRON from 2010, as well as Secret Diary of a Cal Girl and, most recently, the…

  March 11, 2020
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  The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****

  The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel Wilton’s Music Hall, 16th January 2020 I was much taken with one of Told By An Idiot’s previous productions Napoleon Disrobed, which featured its co-founder and AD Paul Hunter alongside Ayesha Antoine, whose career unsurprisingly has gone fro strength to strength…

  March 6, 2020
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  As You Like It at the Barbican Theatre review ***

  As You Like It Barbican Theatre, 15th January 2020 As You Like It? Not really like this. Mind you I have yet to see a production of the play that really bowled me over. The NT production from 2016 directed by Polly Findlay looked great, office chairs becoming the Forest…

  March 1, 2020
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  Measure for Measure at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Measure for Measure Barbican Theatre, 8th January 2020 I like Measure for Measure. I find the weird cocktail of morality play and satirical “comedy” fascinating. No one comes out of it well, not even the ostensibly virtuous Isabella who goes into bat to save brother Claudio from death, but is…

  February 25, 2020
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  The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida Theatre ****

  The Duchess of Malfi Almeida Theatre, 2nd Jan 2020 No question Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall is talented. Her Summer and Smoke, the dreamy Three Sisters here last year and now this. And for those, like the Tourist, who get a little antsy about her intemperate use of de jour…

  February 12, 2020