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Pinter at Pinter 5 review ***
Pinter at Pinter Five: The Room/Victoria Station/Family Voices Harold Pinter Theatre, 26th January 2019 The weakest of the Pinter at Pinter season IMHO though still well worth seeing. Not the fault of the cast with Rupert Graves in particular on top form. Maybe the plays; The Room is Pinter’s first…
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Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse review *****
Sweat Donmar Warehouse, 24th January 2019 Who is the greatest living playwright (in the English language). Caryl Churchill. Obviously. Who is, in the opinion of the Tourist, probably the most talented playwright under 40 in Britain today. Ella Hickson. What was the best original play the Tourist saw last year.…
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The Unreturning at Theatre Royal Stratford East review *****
The Unreturning Theatre Royal Stratford East, 24th January 2019 Denizens of Leicester, Swansea and Oxford. Consider yourself lucky. There is still time for you to catch the tour of Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning which has already travelled to Plymouth, (the Theatre Royal who cannily commissioned it), Southampton, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham…
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Stan and Ollie film review ****
Stan and Ollie, 22nd January 2019 For the avoidance of doubt the two fellas above are not Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, the stars of film Stan and Ollie, nor indeed are they yer actual Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. No this, obviously is a statue of the comedy…
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The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre review ***
The Cane Royal Court Theatre, 21st January 2019 Somehow, until now, the Tourist has failed to see any of the work of Mark Ravenhill, either as writer, performer or director, or even his columns in the Guardian, surprising given the Tourist’s status as a paid up Guardianista. There was a…
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Keep: Daniel Kitson at Battersea Arts Centre review *****
Keep, Daniel Kitson Battersea Arts Centre, 20th January 2019 Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Kitson. I know, I know. He is only a stand-up comedian. So comparing him to these master explorers of the absurdity of the human condition is, to say the least, stretching it a bit. However, as those of…
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Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at King’s Place review *****
Bang on a Can All Stars, BBC Singers, Tecwyn Evans (conductor) Kings Place Hall One, 19th January 2019 I had heard a few snippets of Julia Wolfe’s compositions but freely admit this was a bit of a leap into the unknown. Still what I had heard seemed interesting, I was keen…
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Pinter at Pinter 6 review *****
Pinter at Pinter Six: Party Time and Celebration Harold Pinter Theatre, 17th January 2019 This for me was the best off the bunch so far in the Pinter at Pinter one act play season. And proof that Jamie Lloyd is the Man when it comes to directing the menacing Master.…
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