Reviews
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Review: While We Wait, Arches Lane Theatre
As a high-concept romcom this two-hander is often engaging and amusing, but both the beginning and ending don't quite work.
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Review: The Last Days of Liz Truss, The Other Palace
A frantic farce that charts the last days of the UK’s shortest reigning Prime Minister, this show hints at political tyranny but is overpowered by cheap laughs.
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Review: The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin, New Diorama Theatre
A spectacle that cleverly blends clowning and digital drama, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is a timely commentary delivered with immense care.
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Review: The Ladies Football Club, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
A fascinating piece of football history told with plenty of humour and excellent set pieces of movement.
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Review: The Murmuration of Starlings, Seven Dials Playhouse
A moving love story capturing the frustrations and resilience required when lives are changed by dementia with its resultant shifts in memory and identity.
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Review: Suppliants of Syria, Hoxton Hall
Border Crossings’ production blends testimony and live performance to explore asylum and displacement.
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Review: Legally Blonde, Lyceum Theatre
A frothy, fun musical which doesn't take itself too seriously.
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Review: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Assembly Roxy Upstairs
An engaging debut take on an absurdist classic from new Edinburgh collective GUTTER.Theatre.
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Review: The Great Big Bug Show, Half Moon Theatre
Verse and invertebrates combine in a fun-filled hour of music and musings on mini beasts.
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Review: Savage, White Bear Theatre
A stark and honest look at the birth of conversion therapy and the devastating, lasting scars felt by those it was done to and those that loved them.