Tag: Rachel O’Riordan
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Queens Theatre Hornchurch review ****
The Beauty Queen of Leenane Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, 14th November 2019 From one side of London to the other. All on track until the very last gasp, so snuck in a few minutes late to this. A big thanks to the very helpful ushers at this friendly house. TBQOL isn’t…
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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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Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith review ****
Noises Off Lyric Hammersmith, 24th July 2019 Noises Off will transfer to the Garrick Theatre from 27th September. It is a generally accepted truism in luvvie-world that Michael Frayn’s Noises Off is one of the funniest plays. An opinion with which the Tourist heartily concurs. Alongside Lysistrata and The Frogs, most…
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Foxfinder at the Ambassadors Theatre review ***
Foxfinder Ambassadors Theatre, 10th September 2018 I had not seen Dawn King’s feted breakthrough play Foxfinder but I can see why it caused such a stir when it appeared in 2011 and why it is being made into a film. A near(ish) post-war dystopia, where a shadowy authoritarian regime has…
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Killology at the Royal Court Theatre review ****
Killology Royal Court Theatre, 8th June 2017 There are a few plays every year where I kick myself that I missed them. Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Stott from 2015 was definitely one of them. So I was determined to see Killology (pre-reviews) even though I wasn’t entirely persuaded by the…
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