Reviews
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Review: Return of the GODZ, Peacock Theatre
Are you a gay man or a middle-aged woman? Do you want to be titillated, yet still maintain a scrap of refinement?
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Review: Under the Shadow, Almeida Theatre
Leila Farzad is outstanding in this Iranian horror story set during the Iran-Iraq War which captures the tension of living through war whilst delivering intense terror.
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Review: All That’s Left is Right, Etcetera Theatre
A one-dimensional allegory about social exclusion and fear of difference
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Review: This is Rambert, Sadler’s Wells
Exquisite showcase of a dance company at the forefront of their field, paying homage to its 100-year journey.
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Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Charterhouse
A charming outdoor production that adds warmth, wit and musical flair to Shakespeare’s overlooked comedy.
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Review: It’s A Funny New Game (The Changing Farce of Football), Canal Café Theatre
Offers some competent performances and amusing moments but feels like an overlong collection of pub-born football sketches
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Review: Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, Soho Theatre
The title of Zoe Wohlfeld’s Dog Funeral promises exactly the kind of sweetly sinister paradox that the show delivers. It is a clown show about grief, an hour-long act of comic mourning that constantly balances the adorable against the disturbing.…
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Review: Allegra, Richmond Theatre
An exuberant celebration of individuality, creativity and the right to live life on one's own terms.
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Review: Jane Eyre Convention, Bread and Roses Theatre
A spirited cast brings energy to a difficult comic brief, finding fun in Charlotte Brontë’s famously grim tale of love.
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Review: Turn This Sh*t Off, Hen and Chickens Theatre
This entertaining, fast-paced variety show delivers a very good showcase of the very worst of what television has to offer.