Reviews
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Review: Ghosts, Lyric Hammersmith
It’s tricky taking on the classics at the best of times. All that weight of expectation, with many in the audience remembering previous productions and making comparisons to supposedly definitive renditions… Does an adaptation lessen or heighten such vulnerabilities? This…
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Review: The Inseparables, Finborough Theatre
A well-intentioned adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s last, lost novella that needs to go bigger to have adequate emotional impact.
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Review: Ballet Lorent’s Snow White, Sadler’s Wells
A majestic, spellbinding update of the Grimm classic for the poisonous beauty standards of the social media age
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Review: Whole, Camden’s People Theatre
Whole is a gift to a loved one who ran out of time to accomplish a dream and that gift is thoughtful and intelligent and beautifully wrapped in authenticity and originality.
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Review: Alex Franklin: Gurl Code, Soho Theatre
Alex Franklin knocks ‘em dead with a Barbapapa of a show; fabulously funny, absurd and intelligent, it creatively reshapes comedy while telling a heart-stoppingly moving trans tale.
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Review: Tending, Riverside studios
A raw, urgent love letter to the NHS nurses holding the nation together.
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Review: Body Stocking Legion, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
Whatever entertainment you might expect from Bethnal Green Working Men’s club, Body Stocking Legion is probably not it! This entertainment is quirky, chaotic, immersive, inclusive, and bawdy but principally good hearted and well-intended.
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Review: Dead Mom Play, Union Theatre
A play which explores the five stages of grief in a fun, quick-witted and entirely too relatable way.
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Review: BROS, Kings Head Theatre
A gut-punching, hilarious, and heartbreaking look at modern masculinity.
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Review: Heisenberg, Arcola
Loneliness lingers in this queer reimagining of Simon Stephens’ tale of fractured connection.