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Villain, King’s Head Theatre – Review

Pros: An immensely likable performance from Maddie Rice, making light of a demanding script. Cons: A story told in flashback wasn’t easy to follow at times. There are times when we get things wrong in our job.  The consequences are, for the most part, negligible: embarrassment, a knock to our confidence or maybe the loss of a bonus.  But what happens if an error changes someone’s life beyond all recognition?  That’s the conundrum posed by Villain, a one act monologue featuring social worker ...

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Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough…

….Thriller Live certainly hasn’t! The show opened at London’s Lyric Theatre in January 2009, just a few months before Michael Jackson’s death, and has stayed put ever since. It had already broken the Lyric Theatre’s record for longest running production when, earlier this month it played its 3358th performance and so broke the record of Jesus Christ Superstar to become the 15th longest-running musical in the West End. That doesn’t sound so very remarkable until you consider some of the shows in ...

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